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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > > project X says their code should be compiled with GCC, should we deny |
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> > > the ICC users the ability to compile it? |
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> > that is project X's decision and no one else's. dont pull a stallman on |
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> > us and force everyone to subscribe to your ideas of "freedom". there's a |
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> > reason we told him to take a hike. |
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> We change upstream decisions all the time via patches and USE flags when |
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> we as developers think that it could be done better, to make it fit into |
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> our file layout. |
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some people (because it's in *their* interest to do so) have the option of |
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maintaining changes. that does not mean anyone is required to do so. glibc |
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for example provides no support unless you build it with gcc. so how does |
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icc build it ? they implement the *useful* GNU extensions. |
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-mike |
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