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Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> skribis: |
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> Am 17.06.2014 21:57, schrieb Barry Schwartz: |
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> > Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis: |
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> >> I appreciate your concern but, all too often it seems, the notion |
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> >> of "not a good idea" becomes "not a good idea therefore it should |
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> >> be irrevocably disabled for everyone whether they want it or not." |
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> > Yeah, that seems to be common. |
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> > There is a tug-of-war between the idea of Gentoo as (a) an OS like the |
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> > usual suspects except you can easily compile it yourself and (b) a |
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> > framework for rolling your own OS. I lean in preference towards (b). |
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> > (The xLFSes are suffering from the same tug-of-war.) |
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> so make yourself an overlay, put an ebuild with apropriate patches there |
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> and be happy. |
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I have _more than one_ overlay, hosted on Bitbucket. |
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Please try to be nice about this. Is it not even acceptable to discuss |
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that there is such a tug-of-war? Should discussions about the |
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balances of pros and cons in Gentoo take place in ‘discussion |
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overlays’? |
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