Francesco Talamona <ti.liame <at> email.it> writes:
> > > It seems like quite often I have to go on a search expedition for > > > docs.... > > beagle (I haven't looked a beagle since 0.0.10). > Using 0.2.7, it's quite good. Yes this is the sort of tool I've been wanting. If one considers the collective time that we individually sink into finding current documentation, across the gentoo user community, it's a huge problem (waisted time) opportunity. > I'm also testing kat (an indexing framework for KDE) > http://sourceforge.net/projects/kat, but still unsure if it's a viable > alternative to beagle. hmmm, did not see the ebuild for this? > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92113 ah yes, my favorite line is: " ------- Comment #3 From Carsten Lohrke 2005-06-13 09:41 PST [reply] ------- Jan, see the relationship developers/packages, grep the tree for unmaintened packages and you see the problem. Before someone comes and says "it's just about putting this ebuild in cvs" - it's not. I did not add a single new package (despite new dependencies) for months and I don't intend to do so in the future. Get active¹² yourself." Maybe a convient mechanism for non-sanctioned packages is what's needed portage overlay is a pain and once you bet many packages, beocmes a microcosm in disfuctionality. It's just like the docs delima where individually we waste a huge amount of time manually duplicating what should be automated.? I.E. Since gentoo is a source-code system, we should have more packages than debian, not less.....(ymmv). You know, I should keep my mouth shut, but, what the hell. I'm the only person to have gottenn 86'd from this gentoo user list..(hi Neil)....(it's difficult to insult my integrity, cause I do not believe any human has integrity....). I suggested a while back that the 'gentoo genius' provide templates and concrete steps to promote consumers of gentoo into developers. It's an elitist club, dominated by the latest fads of Object Oriented Confusion.... Here he insults one's requests for action, yet, the path to being a 'developer' is quite merky and fickle from the musings I have read. I have even been so bold as to suggest that Gentoo allow 'donations' with specific requests for software and issue resolution. Money is not evil, it's a tool. The intentions of mens hearts are suspect, in my experiences. I've even solicited for persons with skills to perform 'package assimilation' for compensation and had no takers. This would help finance the developers (we all have bills and desires) and help focus Gentoo so it can leave the R&D lab and become the distro it is destine to be, both commercially and socially. My offers fell on the deaf(dumb) ears..... Go figure.....I'll just shut up now, cause, like an old-geezer, I too enjoy poking at a 'young and excitable tiger', now and again.... thanks for the insight on beagle and kat..... cheers! James -- [email protected] mailing list
