Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Agenda for Gentoo Council meeting on 2014-02-25

[Samuli Suominen]

On 25/02/14 18:12, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
>> We acknowledge that our policy may not have been perfect but we need
>> time to analyze claims brought up by/to the QA team to construct a
>> proper proposal for a better policy that would satisfy everyone;
>> hopefully in co-operation with a QA team.
> Is there any reason to think that this analysis will come to a
> different conclusion?
>
> I don't see any concerns on the list that weren't addressed already.
> USE=gtk2 means build gtk2 support
> USE=gtk3 means build gtk3 support
> USE="gtk2 gtk3" means build support for whichever version the
> maintainer thinks is better (which is what USE=gtk meant a week ago)

And how does one select 'the best supported GTK+ for this application,
selected by the package's maintainer.' ?
I want latest best supported GTK+ enabled for all of my packages. I
can't figure out the USE combination from
those. You can't surely assume every user to review every single package
and decide for himself after reading
hours, days, weeks, if not even months various package ChangeLogs, NEWS
files, and other possible ways
upstreams are communicating with? And how does user know of all the mail
that goes between upstream
and package maintainers about what to choose for distribution?

>
> If there is something that has been missed I'm happy to hear it, but
> it has been a week and I haven't seen anything beyond the "why can't
> maintainers choose?" theme which was responded to a week ago.  If
> there are other objections we should consider, then please state them
> before the meeting.  I'm sure somebody might think of something new,
> but it has been a week and somebody could think of something new 9
> months from now.
>
>

It doesn't cover the case of 'functionality', only 'baseless want of an
clueless user for restoration of old theme look'