Best Gentoo bashing

metallikop · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: Best Gentoo bashing

All in good fun here. Lets have the best Gentoo bashing you've seen:

I'll start it off with https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35890

christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

This is why i prefer cats to people.

metallikop · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:24 pm Post subject:

You know you want to participate, even your cat had to make fun of your funroll loops at least once in his 9 lives.

christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

I might make a sneak attack just out of boredom.

viperlin · Veteran Joined: 15 Apr 2003 Posts: 1319 Location: UK

he really shouldn't have used his email addy posting that, hopefully some script kiddy doesnt sign him up for loads of porn

christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

Naah, they wont think of something as advanced as that... =)

roo_ · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 91

wdreinhart · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 569 Location: 4QFJ12345678

It's good, but not as good as the version of Rhythmbox that popped a dialog box about "Using gentoo, eh? You're going to have problems" every time you ran the program.

If you want general distro-bashing, I don't think anyone can beat the mPlayer team when they were on the warpath about RedHat's customized version of gcc. They made people using that specific version of gcc type a long-winded rant about RedHat and their substandard "leaked beta" compiler as a parameter to ./configure.

HydroSan · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

funny

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nerdbert · l33t Joined: 09 Feb 2003 Posts: 981 Location: Berlin

this isn't really a dup, but many posts refer to this bug report. I actually can understand his anger - we really take debugging to a new dimension ("woot, it doesn't work with -mfpmath=sse?"). But there is a simple solution: Include a hint in the ebuild, which tells people to contact bugs.gentoo.org prior to contacting the developer.
btw: IIRC there already is a note in any recent gaim package.
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theCheat · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 43 Location: Atlanta

Man, I used to like gaim... until I read that post.... does that make me the stereotypical gentoo user?
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Hypnos · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 5:54 am Post subject:

Sotol · Apprentice Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 192

How do we know that bug was really posted by that dev?
Could be a spoof for all we know.

If he really did post that, it's outta line... but understandable.
Imagine spending your free time contributing to a program
that too many people take for granted. Then having the
same noob questions asked a million times. I know I'd get
frustrated enough to post something on the website's front
page (not gentoo bugs

). I know I've been guilty of
posting questions, or bugging people for answers when I
should've googled it.

That bug was funny tho. :lol:

Hypnos · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 6:12 am Post subject:

chino_ · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 8:53 am Post subject:

This guy should really install gentoo and do an emerge life

christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

Nefarius · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2004 Posts: 48 Location: Graz, Austria

>> This guy should really install gentoo and do an emerge life
he doesn't deserve it, give him a 286 and Win pre 98se ;))
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christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

Give him Win95 so we can play with ping of death... :evil:

DarrenM · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject:

It's also 6 months old and probably posted with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

F16PilotJumper · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 1:32 am Post subject:

I doubt that. The Gaim people are tightasses.

Every time you say a word about file transfer, you get a 'code it yourself, n00b!!!', or 'AIMs protocol is broken, it's not our problem!'

Regardless of if the AIM protocol is 'broken' (I don't see how that is, because AOL sets what it is in the first place) file transfer works fine in Windows. And being able to transfer files over AIM to other Linux users as well as people on other platforms is pretty important, IMHO.

I guess it's just easier to come up with excuses then to make it work.

Xyzzy · n00b Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 6

Rastagromit · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 5:04 am Post subject:

w0ah. and here I was thinking it this was a thread about the BASH shell in Gentoo.
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christer75 · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 64

Things are almost never what they seem.

langthang · Retired Dev Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 620

This one may not be the best, but...
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141083