Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

[Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 07:54:13 -0500, Dale wrote:
> 
> > I just hope they also learned from their mistakes.  Dropping KDE3 
> > support long before KDE4 was ready was a big one.  That shouldn't be 
> > repeated.
> 
> If it's as good as everyone says, what more support did it need? Did the
> KDE guys come knocking on your door to remove it, or do it remotely
> (Android anyone?), or did it just keep working?
>

That argument is probably valid when limiting the scope of the
discussion to gentoo, but the only use I ever had for kde3 was 
for non-techie users who wouldn't know whether to poop or go 
blind if they click on something and nothing happens (or the worng 
thing happens). I had all but two on openSuse and the rest on Kubuntu 
in the kde3 days, but kde3 is nowhere near as idiot-proof now on 
either of those distros. I do not want to support non-techie users using 
obscure, deprecated, unmaintained code for something as critical as
their DE! It's hard enough when everything works as advertised... 

To be honest, I haven't quite worked up the courage to 
put any users on gentoo, though it's become the only distro I feel 
really good about using. If we had more uniform hardware it would 
be a lot less daunting and I'd have probably done it already, but 
the idea of having to manage so many individual builds is just 
highly suboptimal.

> I'd say that you got excellent value for money, and a lot more support
> for an EOL product than you paid for. Yes, it would have been nice if they
> had waited until KDE4 was a little more polished before EOLing KDE3, but
> who would have paid for two dev teams?
> 

Yes, but you should have heard the wailing and gnashing of teeth of the
non-tech users, it was like being surrounded by 8000 drunken harpies and
it lasted almost three months til they finally resigned themselves to
xfce. I will not go through that again.

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