From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JEK6e-0001Br-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:51:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E4A8E0957; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from proxy2.bredband.net (proxy2.bredband.net [195.54.101.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D212AE0956 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2.bredband.com (195.54.101.122) by proxy2.bredband.net (7.3.127) id 47285ABF018F23E9 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:18 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkdhAKyjikdV4PXARmdsb2JhbACBVo4qAQEBN5Zh Received: from c-c0f5e055.104-1-64736c15.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (HELO dx.nyblom.org) ([85.224.245.192]) by ironport2.bredband.com with ESMTP; 14 Jan 2008 08:51:14 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dx.nyblom.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D5F84CD65 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:13 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at dx.nyblom.org Received: from dx.nyblom.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dx.nyblom.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id oqEbJv1ZhYMz for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from www.nyblom.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dx.nyblom.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E2667F94D for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from 194.237.142.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user naga@dx.homelinux.org) by www.nyblom.org with HTTP; Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:11 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <30000.194.237.142.6.1200297071.squirrel@www.nyblom.org> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:51:11 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ? From: "Naga" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a 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 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal References: <1200129071.4788842fc5816@imp.free.fr> <200801131523.23859.nagatoro@gmail.com> <478A2138.2030204@bellsouth.net> <200801131745.32588.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <478A9318.20300@bellsouth.net> <87zlv8zyli.fsf@newsguy.com> <478B1227.609@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <478B1227.609@bellsouth.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 2045e067-b306-444e-b23c-50630bd5ef72 X-Archives-Hash: cb981191241f51b4c41d4ee5f578131d > reader@newsguy.com wrote: > Case in point, portage I have read has a lot of hacks that are hurting development. In the end it works pretty well but it makes it really hard to add more "features" without messing up something else. So, someone needs to make a decision on what needs to happen with that. Some say rewrite portage, some say switch to C** and some say switch to Plaudus (sp?). This just seems to be one thing I have read about. I'm sure Portage (the program) has allot of hacks in it but I'm also sure that had those who advocate its shortcomings been concerned about backwards compability with older stable versions they would have been mor= e humble in there criticism. > Like you, I wish I could do more. I would be willing to learn to code if I felt it was worthwhile. I am disabled so I have plenty of time to learn and contribute but after my past experiences on -dev, I won't be repeating that for a VERY long time and only after some things change. The devs complain about not having enough help but when someone wants to learn and help some they sort of shoot themselves in the foot. The best way to help out is to try and join a team/herd. They are much friendlier then the -dev list and in much need of help. The easiest way I think is to join an arch team as an arch tester. --=20 gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list