From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:11:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060227001102.563683b4@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060226232952.GG8621@garbanzo>
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On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:52 -0500 "John J. Foster"
<Gentoo-User@festus.150ml.com> wrote:
| On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the
| > years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the
| > slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability.
|
| Excuse me my friend, but I switched to Gentoo because of this
| attitude with every other distro I've moved away from !!!
The distro people are right. The difference between Gentoo and most
other distributions is that we make it easier for you to override our
decisions, should you feel the need.
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat)
Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-27 0:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-22 19:55 [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages? Thierry de Coulon
2006-02-22 20:02 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-02-22 20:38 ` Thierry de Coulon
2006-02-22 21:38 ` Rafael Bugajewski
2006-02-22 22:12 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-22 22:44 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-02-22 22:53 ` Thierry de Coulon
2006-02-22 23:08 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-24 17:31 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-24 20:57 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-25 18:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-25 19:34 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-25 23:47 ` Mariusz Pękala
2006-02-26 5:16 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-26 16:34 ` Mariusz Pękala
2006-02-26 17:06 ` Bo Andresen
2006-02-26 20:40 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-26 23:25 ` John J. Foster
2006-02-27 0:15 ` Bo Andresen
2006-02-27 0:57 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2006-02-27 3:44 ` Zac Slade
2006-02-26 16:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-26 23:29 ` John J. Foster
2006-02-27 0:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-02-27 1:26 ` John J. Foster
2006-02-27 17:17 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-27 17:33 ` Dave Nebinger
2006-02-27 18:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-22 21:27 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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