On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:02:28 +0200 "Christopher Covington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one > would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on > the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo > developers? Nobody seems to have a problem with using someone else's C > compiler and installation tools (gcc, autoconf, automake). Resistance > to a package manager on the grounds that, "It wasn't originally > written by us!" could perhaps push technical arguments that actually > matter into the background. It seems to me that this is just vapier's way of saying "I don't want ciaranm anywhere near an official package manager". Regards, -- Andrej -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
