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Fabio Erculiani posted on Thu, 10 May 2012 22:48:29 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On a side note, I find it quite odd to be accused of trash talking by |
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> Linux Kernel people. |
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hwoarang is a kernel person? |
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If you note, gregkh didn't post that. I can't agree with udev/systemd |
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integration, but it's worth noting that gregkh has for the most part |
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stayed out of that debate, and simply stated where he sees udev going, as |
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an upstream person who thus speaks with authority on the subject. |
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It may very well be that a fork is thus required. I guess we wait and |
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see. But I don't see the kde folks being willingly subsumed into a |
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gnomeos black hole, and time and again, floss history has demonstrated |
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that when there's an immediate need, forks do occur. Both gnome and kde |
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have their forks in recent history, xorg is a fork, there's the glibc and |
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gcc history, etc. If integration gets too close, a fork /will/ happen. |
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But that history is available to everyone and the wise will take heed. |
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Meanwhile, for the moment at least, upstream udev and systemd have both |
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taken pains to state that while they're going to ship in a unified |
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tarball, at least for now, udev will remain buildable on its own, |
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SPECIFICALLY to support folks not ready to go systemd just yet. So |
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there's still hope. |
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And 3-5 years is an eternity in an ecosystem such as the FLOSS world, |
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evolving at the speed of the net! Looking back from there, it's quite |
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possible this debate will look petty and short-sighted, regardless of how |
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things ultimately turn out. |
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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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