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Barry Schwartz posted on Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:11:40 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> The between the lines here is that you have certain people for whom |
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> backwards compatibility is an afterthought, stability is ‘not fun’, |
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> and competition of different approaches is to be squelched by peer |
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> pressure. All these points are really, to me, arguments for getting away |
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> from Gnome as soon as one can (which I have already done, and also |
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> switched to eudev). |
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FWIW, as an "if there's a choice, offer an option" kdeer, I've never |
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quite figured out what the "there's only one true way, our way" approach |
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of gnome made any sense at all for an "if there's an option, make it a |
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USE flag" gentooer, but I guess there's gentooers out there for whom it |
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must make sense... for a time anyway... or /whatever/ gnome did wouldn't |
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be an issue for gentoo as no gentooers would be using it. |
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Regardless, I do realize that there's people for whom the gnome approach |
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makes sense, I guess the "I just want it to work without me having to |
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think about a choice" folks. And I'm *VERY* glad there's a gnome out |
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there for those sorts of people, because if there wasn't, they'd be even |
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MORE determined to kill the choice in kde and other desktops that I so |
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much depend on (I've never seen a default desktop I liked and I don't |
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expect I ever will, which means I really DO depend on the ability to |
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reconfigure it into something I DO like!), and in Linux in general. |
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But I STILL can't figure out how someone can be a gnome gentooer, because |
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it just doesn't make sense to me as to me the gentoo and gnome approaches |
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are polar opposites. But they're out there. <shrug> |
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(Honestly, I really /would/ like to see an explanation of how someone who |
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finds the configurability of gentoo a feature not a bug, can find the |
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same configurability a bug not a feature as gnome folks seem to. I must |
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assume people are reasonable and thus that there's logic behind their |
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reasoning, but /I/ certainly don't see it in this case, and that really |
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/does/ bother me! So I really /would/ appreciate it if someone could |
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explain that logic to me!) |
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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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