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On Sun, 26 May 2013 15:23:44 +0800 |
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Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 26 May 2013 00:48, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On the other hand, we |
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> > also agreed that they shouldn't refuse unit files if anyone else |
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> > does the work for them. |
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> Where is this policy documented? |
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Nowhere, I think. I've seen it coming in the late thread, looked common |
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sense enough to me. |
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If it is to be documented, I think we should document it in a more |
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general fashion. To cover all stuff like completions, logrotate and so |
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on. |
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> >> [...] |
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> >> And you misunderstood: it is systemd that is aggressively opposed to |
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> >> Gentoo. But apparently that doesn't bother some of our developers and |
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> >> Gentoo is becoming more and more welcoming to it. |
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> > Protecting freedom through taking away the freedom of using systemd? |
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> > Makes sense really. |
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> That would be similar to the way the GPL protects software freedom. |
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> Does that not make sense to you either? |
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No. The initial version of that response even used 'FSF' but I've |
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decided not to flame it. |
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> But it isn't even like that. I'm not taking away anyone's freedom to |
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> use systemd. You can do so if you wish. You can add unit files to your |
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> system by yourself, or use an overlay. There are various ways this |
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> could be realized even within Gentoo. |
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You know how fragile that is, don't you? |
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> But you seem to dismiss all of those, and will only be happy by |
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> forcing maintainers to add support to packages they maintain, even if |
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> they believe it is a bad idea. |
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Do I? As far as I'm concerned, I always kindly asked on IRC or opened |
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bugs for it. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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