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
next prev 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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