Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerar...@googlemail.com> skribis: > Am 17.06.2014 21:57, schrieb Barry Schwartz: > > Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> skribis: > >> I appreciate your concern but, all too often it seems, the notion > >> of "not a good idea" becomes "not a good idea therefore it should > >> be irrevocably disabled for everyone whether they want it or not." > > Yeah, that seems to be common. > > > > There is a tug-of-war between the idea of Gentoo as (a) an OS like the > > usual suspects except you can easily compile it yourself and (b) a > > framework for rolling your own OS. I lean in preference towards (b). > > > > (The xLFSes are suffering from the same tug-of-war.) > > so make yourself an overlay, put an ebuild with apropriate patches there > and be happy.
I have _more than one_ overlay, hosted on Bitbucket. Please try to be nice about this. Is it not even acceptable to discuss that there is such a tug-of-war? Should discussions about the balances of pros and cons in Gentoo take place in ‘discussion overlays’?
