* trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 12:28 -0600, Chris Larson wrote: > > * trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Yeah but my problem is that I wanted something that works, and if you > > > report a bug to people who are listed as responsible for that module you > > > dont get a bunch of people saying that they are just volunteers and > > > access to CVS ro so you cant submit fixes, etc.. > > > > If you show yourself to be competent, you'll get write access, > > whether it be to Opie cvs at handhelds.org, GPE cvs at handhelds.org, or > > the OpenEmbedded repositories for distro things. > > lies! france has decided that I am not allowed to participate at all. > competent or otherwise. his *sole* decision prevents me from staying on > the mailing list, irc, etc.
My ignorance of france's decisions doesn't make it a lie, it makes it a misunderstanding. Regardless, OE's metadata isn't even within his control. > If it werent for the work I did this week bluetooth on the 0.8 final for > h5500 would still not function (it got broke *again* when it worked in > 0.8-pre), some hardware wouldnt be supported, people would not be able > to upgrade (familiar released several packages that werent tested so > people have to patch their systems manually just to upgrade them), etc. > This is not to say that someone would not have eventually figured it > out, some of it was easy, and most people could have done it. I'm proud of you. Was there a reason for this pointless shameless self promotion? > Additionally stuff that I have reported (as simple as a RDEPENDS change) > is taking at least more than 2 weeks to fix (its still not fixed). Reported via what means? > > > Yes and there is a 'BootStrap' image that hh.org has its basically opie > > > or gpe without a GUI (what makes opie opie and gpe gpe). But it would > > > still be awkward to mount effectivly a root partition as a subdirectory > > > somewhere to use it for document storage. > > > > I should correct a misconception here. Bootstrap is the distro without > > a gui. It is not opie without a gui, because opie _is_ a gui. opie > > without a gui is nothing. > > what misconception, other than the one you have about what I said? I > even specifically said the gui is what makes opie opie or gpe gpe. > personally I dont see a misconception on my part, but I do find it > interesting that you have to correct me on this by basically saying I am > wrong but saying the same thing as I said.. Bootstrap is not opie without opie. It is not gpe without gpe. It is a distribution without either. How many times do you need me to fix your terminology before it sinks in? -- Chris Larson - kergoth at handhelds dot org Linux Software Systems Engineer - clarson at ti dot com OpenZaurus Project Maintainer - http://openzaurus.org/
