Re: Bug#220401: ITP: linux-experimental -- Linux 2.4 kernel [EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE]
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:49:49PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> >
> > Yes.
>
> Could you elaborate? The obvious interpretation of your "Yes" is that
> you do not understand a large part of your target audience (new users
> who do not customize their kernels). By and large, that set of users
> does use "Linux" to refer to the entire operating environment, from
> kernel up to the desktop.
Sorry for that. I realised my response wasn't explicit enough a while
after sending it.
See my second message in response to Matthew.
> Overly terse answers (and your previous dismissals of questions as
> "trivial" despite attempts to explain why they are non-trivial) do not
> reassure anyone that you are capable of packaging a critical system
> component, especially in an ambitiously different way.
Actualy, I just fixed the problem you refer to (and it was trivial). I'll
announce it in a while after uploading to my $HOME in gluck.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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