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2012/1/3 Olivier Crête <tester@g.o>: |
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> A couple years ago, Gentoo was the forward looking distribution, ready |
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> to try radical changes that break existing assumption, like our init |
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> scripts with dependencies or our early use of udev. These days, I see so |
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> much resistance to progress, it makes me sad. |
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I think the key is to keep huge changes optional to start with. This |
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one feels like it is being pushed upon us. |
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I don't really have a big problem with moving to /usr and all that. |
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However, I do have some concerns with the larger direction that |
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everybody is taking with vertical integration (which this is just a |
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part of). For example, if eventually you can't run gnome without |
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systemd where does that leave bsd gentoo users? Gentoo is about |
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choice, and various upstream efforts are moving in the direction of |
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giving users only one choice - take it or leave it. How do you |
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install KDE and Gnome on the same system when they eventually want |
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different sysvinit implementations. Will the RedHat and Ubuntu of the |
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future have no more in common than Tivo and Android do today? |
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Rich |
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