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Igor posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:26:47 +0400 as excerpted: |
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> PS No way PortageQOS will work without uniform agreement. That thing was |
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> missing from portage design from the start and now with the legacy it's |
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> either everyone is willing to give it a try or none. I don't want to |
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> push somebody to something he doesn't see purpose for. There are people |
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> here who spent lots of time on the project and it might be left as is if |
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> they don't want any change. |
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In that case, don't bother, because as the saying goes, attempting to get |
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100% agreement on /anything/ in gentoo is "like herding cats". It simply |
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Does. Not. Work. |
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The closest gentoo gets to 100% agreement is the ones who disagree |
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agreeing to yield to the council's decision and shut up for the sake of |
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maintaining the peace, believing time will eventually prove their point. |
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Or they don't, and they ultimately end up either deciding to go elsewhere |
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than gentoo on their own, or get booted by devrel, appeal to council goes |
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against them, and undertakers and infra shut down their dev access |
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permanently. |
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In fact, some of those people ended up with exherbo (which AFAIK is a |
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play on ex=former, and gentoo's larry the cow mascot) or other projects |
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which you would consider entirely competing. Yet there's a few devs that |
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contribute to both projects, and paludis is an accepted portage |
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alternative, with PMS accepted (grudgingly by some devs) and declared by |
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council to be a defining guideline for in-tree ebuilds. And both those |
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projects are originally/primarily exherbo authored/contributed. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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