On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Alessio Bolognino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-19 20:14, Neil Darlow wrote: >> Hi, >> I don't agree with Arch's reluctance to fix bugs which they consider >> upstream. I recently installed Mandriva on one of my systems and was >> amazed to see all the features that are broken in Arch's GNOME, due to >> them being upstream bugs, fully working in that distribution. >> >> As my principle reason for using GNU/Linux is to get work done and >> Arch's philosophy seems, to me, to be working against this I feel it is >> time to depart from Arch. >> [...] > > Why don't use stop using GNOME instead and complain on their mailing > list? Don't get me wrong, this is not intended to be an aggressive email > at all, but if the bug is upstream... well, it's upstream fault.
I totally agree with Alessio. we should start patching large pieces of software ourselves. We have neither the resources nor the philosophical interest to do that. --vk
