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On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 03:41:31PM +0200, Fabio Erculiani wrote |
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> Are we realizing that in order to keep systemd out of our way, we're |
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> currently writing and maintaining drop-in replacements for the |
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> features that systemd is already providing in an actively maintained |
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> state? openrc-settingsd was the first thing that we as Gentoo |
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> developers (Pacho?) had to write in order to merge GNOME 3.6 into our |
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> tree. |
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So Redhat, who are heavily into GNOME |
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( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Red_Hat_contributions#GNOME_developers ) |
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decided to make GNOME depend on other Redhat-developed software (systemd |
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and pulseadio). Well... like... dohhhh... |
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Question... when Sun made OpenOffice depend on Java (also a Sun |
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product) did Gentoo developers run around suggesting that Java be made a |
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part of the core Gentoo base system? I don't think so. If a user wants |
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to run GNOME badly enough, he'll switch to systemd. I don't see why the |
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rest of us (i.e. non-users of GNOME) should have to follow along and |
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reconfigure our systems. This is a case of the tail wagging the dog. |
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> So what do we want to do then? Isolate from the rest of the world? |
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> (It's not a sarcastic question). I hope that everybody does their |
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> own reality check. |
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You are effectively calling not-using-GNOME isolationist. Let's just |
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say I disagree with you on that. BTW, see my sig. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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