From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwREG-00026J-NB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:45:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBIMfRqE004572; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:41:27 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBIMbCqn001497 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:37:12 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D963A95D9 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:37:11 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:37:10 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy? Message-ID: <20061218223710.777bd0c0@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10612181158m15366003r47a642f334959364@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10612180647g6ac243ebm9cfa8b79a5aeb3b5@mail.gmail.com> <200612181827.20843.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <49bf44f10612181054s6e4f621dy17708692a71a25dd@mail.gmail.com> <342e1090612181118s1d832443vac532f866719c3fb@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10612181158m15366003r47a642f334959364@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_nAT903Lfz/0u.Bil8vUe9g1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: c61662b6-e2b0-459e-8228-043dca22b74f X-Archives-Hash: d3e4d8bba778f1e435dc862b26a79be2 --Sig_nAT903Lfz/0u.Bil8vUe9g1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:58:26 -0800, Grant wrote: > Every user does add to the distro because they make it more popular, > and, generally, a more popular distro will have more active developers > than an unpopular distro. It may, but you are confusing cause and effect. A distro with more developers should be a better distro, and should have more users. > Active developers make the distro. For > example, I submitted this bug about a mod_perl-2.0.3 version bump on > 11-28-06, and there hasn't even been a reply yet: Gentoo helps those who help themselves. Did you try renaming the 2.0.2 ebuild yourself? If so, you should have reported this, along with the outcome. As for your second question, that could have been answered with "eix mod_perl". --=20 Neil Bothwick Just don't give away the homeworld! --Sig_nAT903Lfz/0u.Bil8vUe9g1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFhxgWum4al0N1GQMRAuifAJ9WI9Lb7rtYdi8AhxWfSr/CEy90ngCguttJ PpCIuxuYM2DMAJEoBHM/jVc= =ySN5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_nAT903Lfz/0u.Bil8vUe9g1-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list