From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HZM41-0001MO-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:07:21 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3575R7B013331; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:05:27 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3570IwI007500 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:00:19 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F380650F7 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:00:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.38 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.38 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.706, PLING_QUERY=0.326] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id x8-aKOE9q6jl for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EACF65006 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 07:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HZLww-0005hM-2k for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:00:02 +0200 Received: from zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch ([212.55.215.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:00:02 +0200 Received: from listen by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:00:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorizedoutput?!? Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:55:17 +0200 Organization: n/a Message-ID: <4601299.9FsEl360q0@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> References: <20070404155321.GA10689@crowfix.com> <200704042140.21829.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20070404195909.GA18762@crowfix.com> <200704042227.48244.harmgeerts@home.nl> <20070404205740.GA26182@crowfix.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 48ee5250-aa7c-4940-81b8-5b69b77a8d1b X-Archives-Hash: eddd18152640355a1e2f7bb5f18b0ecb felix@crowfix.com wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 10:27:48PM +0200, Harm Geerts wrote: > >> Would you please show a little respect to the people who developed >> the software you use every day. > > I have found that people are fine, it is groups of people who cause > the problems in the world. The gentoo dev community has a reputation > of releasing untested code, and when I mention a couple of severe > cases that shouldn't have even gotten near the door, let alone out of > it, I am told the ~ platform is testing. Correct. > No it is not, or should not > be; What else should it be? > finished, but entirely different to release untested code. Maybe > getdelta is not from the core community; but did no one in the core > community think it good to report their changes? When the first > colors were added to emerge, did no one think hard coded magic > constants were wrong? When devs think it good to colorize everybody's > terminal without regard to long established UNIX custom of using just > simple plain text, I am told that gentoo is not UNIX. Exactly. > Good grief, > what an attitude! Yep, you've got quite an attitude. > When the gentoo dev community stops spouting nonsense about gentoo is > not unix, What are you talking about? You DO know, to what list you're writing to, don't you? Hint: There's no "dev" in the name of the list. > stops pointing fingers at third party software which was > written to work with gentoo software, and stops blaming users for > preferring white backgrounds, then they will have earned some respect. I guess earning respect from people like you is something, the Gentoo people could very well do without. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list