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 1L4gbR-00066x-Ei for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:56:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ADB27E055A; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (aa012msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B0AE055A for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:56:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa012msr.fastwebnet.it (8.0.013.8) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 491A612E01E50F29 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:56:06 +0100 Message-ID: <492AFA7F.9080005@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:03:27 +0100 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081008) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ? References: <200811241611.47787.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811241611.47787.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e8acd038-019b-4037-ad12-8b72704ad209 X-Archives-Hash: a6c87865663dc5986b50ea8cec2bfcd5 GMail ha scritto: > I ran into this same thing this morning and felt like mailing Zac a piece of > my mind. Sanity prevailed though. > > I still feeling quite deeply offended though that a package maintainer has > forced me to jump through a hoop simply because he would like an earlier > version to "get tested more". Well, why? If you want to test 2.2 instead, you can do it. It's not blocking you from anything. He wants users to test *more* a given version, and that in turn will probably benefit us all. It's a psychological trick, maybe, but an absolutely innocent one. In fact, once you know that, you *should* jump the bandwagon and help test the previous version. m.