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 1QeyOb-0004Iz-T4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:54:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D067521C057; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1AFB21C057 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:52:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7132AC08E for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:52:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.917 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.917 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.318, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 YfdwZ7Uhp-pw for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EB12AC08D for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2011 23:52:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QeyN1-00029Q-Ln for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:52:35 +0200 Received: from athedsl-371613.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.3.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:52:35 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-371613.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 01:52:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it? Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:52:54 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <4E15161B.30202@fedoraproject.org> <6461919.NtEmo2L7JZ@nazgul> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-371613.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110705 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: <6461919.NtEmo2L7JZ@nazgul> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dac2f13be44a98b6519db49eefe02e3d On 07/07/2011 10:30 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:12:43 =E5=BE=AE=E8=8F=9C did opine thusly: >> Devs can do what ever they think are right. Don't argue with them >> unless you pay them. Want gtk2 support? Put your ebuild in your >> personal overlay. > > Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, > whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary > lengths to support everything under the sun. > > That's what Gentoo does. No, it doesn't. The devs made up their minds. There is absolutely=20 nothing we can do. Other than doing the devrel thing, which I'm sure=20 won't work anyway, given the userrel response. Users are worth crap to Gentoo devs.