On Thursday 06 October 2005 07:19, Duncan wrote: > Jared Lindsay posted > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted > > below, on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:54:38 -0700: > > <br> > > And I don't care a whole lot that nitro is unsupported. The dev I > > asked on the issue simply said they don't want to have to provide > > support for tons of kernel patchsets, which I agree they shouldn't have > > to do. > > That's what I've been saying... The devs have their own packages to worry > about, and GKH has the kernels still there plus being the head driver guy > on the mainline kernel, plus his SuSE stuff (his paying job), and all the > other stuff (stable-line patchset, udev, a bunch of other single-shot > stuff he volunteers for) he does around the kernel, to worry about. The > last thing they need to worry about is a bunch of kernel guys' > ever-changing patchsets, where they aren't judged mainline kernel worthy > just yet.
he does not have to worry about udev anymore ;) > > (BTW, could you please set your client, gmail it would appear, to not emit > HTML in posts to the list? Gentoo doesn't seem as strict about it as many > community lists do, but many consider HTML mail the domain of crackers and > spammers, believing if someone has to use HTML, the real content can't be > worth one's time to read in the first place, and therefore killfile it, as > I do on my mail client. The only reason I see your message here is > because I'm reading the list as a newsgroup, on gmane, not as mail.) > well, he sent it as textmail and htmlmail, so everybody can choose, what he/she wants to see.. at least kmail says so, and displayed the text-part. If you hadn't mentioned it - I would not have seen it... but in this point, I am inclined to agree... html-mails are usually seen as awaste of bandwidth ;) -- [email protected] mailing list
