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Gentoo is very open to providing users with the option of using |
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new/different as long as they don't break existing things. I cannot say |
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that many of us like design decisions being taken in GNOME/systemd, but |
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as the long as the few interested in it do not interfere with existing |
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things, they are free to package it as they see fit. |
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On 02/06/2014 01:30 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs, so |
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> you can go on your daily business if you don't want to read the rest |
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> of it. No biggie. |
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> |
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> I just want to say THANK YOU to all of our Gentoo developers. I've |
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> been using Gentoo since ca. 2002 (damn, that's more than a decade), |
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> and I've seen a lot of flamewars and bikeshedding on the -dev mailing |
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> list. |
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> |
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> However, you guys get the job done, and although there are some things |
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> that I would like to have sooner (or would have liked to have |
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> earlier), in the end the people working keep pushing the necessary |
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> changes so the distribution keeps going, and (if so desired) using new |
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> and interesting technologies. |
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> |
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> More importantly, the developers and the bureaucratic structures they |
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> have created don't get (too much) in the way of individual or small |
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> groups of developers pushing for progress. In general at least; there |
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> will be always someone resisting change, but in general Gentoo keeps |
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> advancing, and the council and the other bureaucratic structures don't |
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> punish people for just wanting to have more new and cool features in |
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> the distribution. |
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> |
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> I've never said Thank You to all our developers in all these years |
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> using Gentoo, but after seeing the discussion the Debian CTTE is |
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> having related to the default init they should use[1][2][3] (including |
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> bureaucratic maneuvers, dilatory tactics, legalese interpretation of |
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> their rulings, etc.), I think the time is long overdue for me to do |
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> it. |
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> |
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> Thank you for all the work you guys do and have done. |
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> Thank you for not penalize progress. |
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> Thank you for not being so rigid. |
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> Thank you for keeping the distribution moving and evolving. |
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> And finally, just thank you. |
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> |
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> From a proud Gentoo+systemd+GNOME 3 user, thank you. |
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> |
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> Regards. |
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> |
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> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/threads.html |
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> [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html |
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> [3] http://lwn.net/Articles/584227/#Comments |
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> |
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