On Friday 01 September 2006 02:09, "Kevin F. Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: About gcc 4.1.1':
> The job of Gentoo ebuild Developers is to provide an ebuild that will
> generate a package that (ideally) "just works", in a supported
> environment (i.e. one of the supported profiles with sensible CFLAGS
> etc).  It is _not_ the job of ebuild devs to go hacking around in the
> upstream code to support compilation with any old set of wacky CFLAGS.

Clearly, you and I disagree about what Gentoo developers job is.

Of course, whatever the Gentoo developers are doing (whether it is their 
job or not) is great!  A big thank you to all the developers (and other 
contributors) behind my distribution of choice.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

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