From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R3mkE-0005n6-LZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:31:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0DB9A21C294; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:30:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B5C21C254 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 36968 invoked by uid 3782); 14 Sep 2011 10:29:14 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9519F2D.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.159.45]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:29:13 +0200 Received: (qmail 2748 invoked by uid 1000); 14 Sep 2011 10:25:23 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:25:23 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr Message-ID: <20110914102523.GA2722@acm.acm> References: <20110912150248.GB3599@acm.acm> <1469353.CZnlx9uQzD@pc> <20110913144036.GC3081@acm.acm> <1610416.l8aNQyuqUV@pc> <20110913153841.GD3081@acm.acm> <20110913223524.46cb4319@rohan.example.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ced192a36b0ba7cd3a9f1cb5874dcc15 On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 05:10:40PM -0400, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote: > > Is it simply subscribing to -dev and voicing the conversation there? > Of course not. But please, do that if you think it will help to steer > Gentoo to whatever direction do you think is the correct one. > Personaly I don't think the devs (who, AFAIK, do not receive a single > dime for working on Gentoo) will appreciate anybody telling them how > they should do their jobs, the one they do for free. But that's just > me. I think so. Most devs are grateful for (polite) feedback, and take it into account when doing their work. I suspect they're unaware of just how much this change to booting is disliked by Gentoo users. > No, by "you know what needs to be done" I mean: code. Contribute. > Become a developer. Make shit happens the way you think it should > happen. > Shut up and code. Google it, I didn't come with the phrase. Just as a matter of interest, how much coding have you done for open source or free software? It was conspicuously absent from the CV you posted here a few days ago. > Regards. > --=20 > Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s --=20 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).