Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:31:58 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living costs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Grant
Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. I've been in business

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-20 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:09:09 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a web server they would lend me a page of? I have one but it hosts my business website and I don't want it to become the target of super-savvy folk. ftp, ssh, even copy-paste would be greatly appreciated.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-18 Thread Grant
Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. I've been in business for 7 years and I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-18 Thread Grant
Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. I've been in business for 7 years and

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:56:41 -0800, Grant wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:05:08 +0100, b.n. wrote: Florian Philipp ha scritto: Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the administrator's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread Grant
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there is

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay. I've been

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-15 Thread James
b.n. brullonulla at gmail.com writes: I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) Sad. Can you link the thread? I think that would be counter productive. It's the 'culture of gentoo'

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: Otherwise, I'm interested in what your definition of forward is. How about anything? More than nothing. I'd agree with this. I think gentoo is having growing pains in directions the (gentoo) pundits are not really interested in. Take for example JAVA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Rules

2007-12-14 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20) Sad. Can you link the thread? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list