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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