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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuilds and overlay
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:54:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008262054.33159.joost@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikoMVBTqOH4QLS0O+UL2qS-Lmgd99oa2T+u39Nq@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 26 August 2010 20:48:17 Al wrote:
> > Have you thought to join IRC ? You've sent more than 70 mails both to
> > gentoo-{user,alt} in less than a week. Most of them could be discussed
> > and answered directly on IRC and doesn't require to CC the world.
> 
> Hi Florian,
> 
> yes, I am hard working to get started with this new stuff.
> 
> From other communities I am educated to prefer lists over IRC even if
> IRC usually faster. Lists result in a searchable knowlage base. You
> can't say the same from the noise of on IRC channels.
> 
> However, if you consider IRC the preferred style of gentoo I can switch.
> 
> Al

Hi Al,

I agree with you, lists result in a searchable knowledge base and and is, 
IMHO, preferred.

However, if you have a very urgent issue, IRC might be more suitable, but then 
people will keep hitting the same issue and asking the same questions because 
these are not searchable.

--
Joost



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-26 18:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 17:27 [gentoo-user] ebuilds and overlay Al
2010-08-26 18:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Al
2010-08-26 18:19   ` Florian CROUZAT
2010-08-26 18:48     ` Al
2010-08-26 18:53       ` Florian CROUZAT
2010-08-26 18:54       ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2010-08-26 19:20         ` Al

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