From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K8MbD-00011q-Pp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:50:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12427E03D4; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:50:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dev.gentooexperimental.org (dev.gentooexperimental.org [81.93.240.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD42E03D4 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:50:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-187-74.dsl.init7.net (adsl-187-74.dsl.init7.net [82.197.187.74]) by dev.gentooexperimental.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEA62CCD9B for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:50:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Patrick Lauer To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] Shiny new stuff Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:50:48 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806162150.48624.bugs@dev.gentooexperimental.org> X-Archives-Salt: 4a08c9ea-585e-4d80-bbac-4e4bdf32c7c7 X-Archives-Hash: 8c1e3bc60aeb519080fddd5ffa6a9ed4 Hi All, I've been thinking about the perceived lack of progress in Gentoo a bit. And somehow it doesn't fit - there are so many nice things. What I did notice though is a lack of communication. Sometimes you mention "Hey, would be great if we had X" on IRC and three people point you at different implementations of the thing you've been searching for the last three months. Here's my challenge to you: Point out and describe the cool things that other people might not now. Small helper apps, overlays with crazy stuff, ricer patches and whatever else you can think of. I can think of a few well known ones: eix, the fast search tool for portage. Really shiny. OpenRC - Awesome init system. It's deviously fast and makes Fedora look like a relict of the 70s Layman - started as a small helper script, now gives access to around 3000 ebuilds (or even more, I haven't counted them in a while) Portage - with 2.2 on the horizon there are some neat features (like sets and obsoleting revdep-rebuild) I'd really appreciate a few pointers at your pet projects, shiny new things and even half-baked ideas that are far from being usable. Just show us what is out there waiting to be polished, packaged and used by legions of happy users! Thanks, Patrick -- gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list