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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> User perspective... |
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For the sake of having a user with a different point of view, let me |
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say that I firmly believe the new *kit daemons (along things like |
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pulseaudio, systemd, GNOME 3, KDE 4) are the future, and Gentoo should |
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drop support for older technologies as soon as possible. Emphasis in |
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"as soon as possible", not "today". |
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The groups model was good, 40 years ago. But it's restrictive (a group |
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gets all or nothing), inflexible, and it difficults the implementation |
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of nice GUIs that take care of them. And it's not only my point of |
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view: the people in the kernel, in freedesktop, and in GNOME and KDE |
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think similarly, and that's why this pletora of new *kit programs (and |
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related new technologies) are becoming mandatory to run not only |
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desktop workstations, but also servers and embeded systems. |
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And actually that's the most powerful reason for Gentoo to drop |
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support for the older technologies: The people who actually *writes* |
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the code are starting to drop support for them. |
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We should embrace the new technologies. Sure, sometimes a new |
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technology would turn out to be a mistake (HAL), or it would take a |
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while to get really good (pulseaudio, ALSA replacing OSS). But when |
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they finally get "there", it's worth every step of the way. |
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Of course they can take a while to get "there", and that's why I'm |
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saying that the support must be dropped "as soon as possible", not |
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"today". But eventualy said support must be dropped: The maintainers |
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of the code would not support it, so I don't see a reason to waste the |
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Gentoo developers time doing it. |
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I know a lot of people would be 100% against what I'm saying, and they |
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will be very vocal about it. But I just want to leave note that there |
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are people like me who actually want to embrace this new technologies, |
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and that we are willing to do the testing and suffer the pains of |
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trying the new technologies. |
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And I say this as a user of Unix since 1996, and writing this email in |
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my laptop running Gentoo with the systemd and GNOME 3 overlays |
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installed at the same time, and loving how the shape of the future |
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looks like. |
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Just my ${CURRENCY/100}. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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