Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:52:00 +0100:
> On Thursday 04 January 2007 09:08, Duncan wrote: >> > "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 >> >> This seems to be a popular quote around the Gentoo lists. I'd like to >> know the context. > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/154604/focus=154953 > > For the record I agree(d) with Ciaran on this point. Again, thank you very much. Good old Ciaran, absolutely forthright if a bit controversial, but now that I know the context, I agree, within the context, as well. I overule keywords and masking often enough myself, but I greatly appreciate the hard work Gentoo devs (and testers) put into the entire framework, so I can pick and choose what I want to overrule, and remain relatively confident about the reasonableness of the defaults for everything else. FWIW, that thread is getting bookmarked. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
