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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012]
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 20:18:36
Message-Id: 20120510211433.0ada0d07@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tightly-coupled core distro [was: Council meeting summary for 3 April 2012] by "Michał Górny"
1 On Thu, 10 May 2012 22:13:33 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 10 May 2012 20:55:02 +0100
4 > > Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
5 > > > Make a constructive criticism if you really need to rant about
6 > > > software that nobody forces you to use.
7 > >
8 > > Not that I agree with anything Fabio has ever said, but I believe
9 > > the issue under discussion here is that tight coupling and vertical
10 > > integration means we are in effect forced to use rather a lot of
11 > > software that we would prefer not to.
12 >
13 > No, I don't think you are forced to use anything. As was proven
14 > before, there are always alternatives.
15
16 That's a somewhat disingenuous claim when the alternatives are moving
17 steadily towards "don't use Linux at all" or "use the full GnomeOS
18 stack".
19
20 --
21 Ciaran McCreesh

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