Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-19 Thread Kent Fredric
On 6/19/07, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: >> Stephen Bennett wrote: >> > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful >> > piece of software. We're not debian. >> >> Could you clarify whet

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Tuesday 19 Jun 2007 4:19:49 am Steve Long wrote: > > Er what? Some of us don't wish to be "at the mercy of" anyone, especially > not some corporation nicking VOIP. That's why we use GNU software. > I don't understand this attitude. Do you really have to bash everything that you do not use? Do y

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Chris Gianelloni wrote: If the Gentoo developers as a whole decided to dedicate this list to pink ponies, we can. Are pretty purple ponies acceptable as well? -- Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Seemant Kulleen
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:49 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > Oh I see, when it's > stuff *you* care about, it's development. Cool. That's sort of the point, isn't it? Developers are here mostly to scratch their own respective itches -- so, by necessity, we talk about stuff we care about. signature.a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 23:49 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > >> Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a > >> licensing issue? If the latter case, this discussion should prob'y go to > >> the new -project ml if and when, or indeed the user forums. > > > > The "problem" wi

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Long
Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:01 +0100, Steve Long wrote: >> Stephen Bennett wrote: >> > Not everyone sees that as a reason not to use a potentially useful >> > piece of software. We're not debian. >> >> Could you clarify whether this is indeed a Gentoo QA issue, or in fact a

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

2007-06-18 Thread Steve Long
Steev Klimaszewski wrote: >> It is neither a QA nor license issue, its an issue of the download being >> unavailable. Please read the full thread. > And to reply to myself - its a licensing issue since we cannot mirror > the distfile. Er thanks for that ;) > However, I hardly find that "facist" -