On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:30:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > not "has to be easy", but definitely, with such purpose. > > Do you disagree? Perhaps you reckon that the whole purpose of > > computing is to make life harder? :) > > You know, this general topic rears it's head about every six months. The > answer never changes: > > Gentoo is what it is, it works a certain way for a reason. Maybe you > like it, maybe you don't. Either way that is not going to change anytime > soon. What you could do is pitch in and do all the same heavy lifting > that our long-term devs have done, and be the change you want to see in > the world. > > That might involve dealing with the protestations of the existing devs > though and they will likely quote the "Gentoo is what it is" line.
On the other hand, if you file bug report with a patch to the ebuild that checks the running kernel version and outputs an elog message of "you might want to try the in-kernel drivers". They may simply say "thank you". This is not a unique situation, there are other out of tree drivers that give such a message, and plenty more that don't. All it needs is for someone to take the time to fix it - rather than demanding that someone else fixes it for them. -- Neil Bothwick A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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