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On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 of August 2015 21:37:36 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> | The approach qt4=qt4 |
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> | and qt5=qt5 seems simpler on the surface, but it means that users end |
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> | up having to set tons of per-package configurations when they don't |
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> | actually care which one they use, |
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> I will risk a thesis that if they didn't care, they wouldn't have chosen |
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> Gentoo... |
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Obviously there are many reasons people use Gentoo, but here is my |
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perspective on this. |
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The value of Gentoo is that it gives you a LOT of power to tweak |
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individual package configurations, without the requirement to do this |
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for everything. There are packages that I carefully configure USE |
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flags for, CFLAGS for, epatch_user, and so on. Heck, some packages I |
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run in containers where I can carefully control almost all aspects of |
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their environment. Then on the same host I'll have screen and bash |
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and a million other packages installed where exact configuration is |
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not critical, and so I want it to "just work." If I wanted to |
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micromanage everything I might as well run Linux From Scratch. |
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Gentoo should be the best of both worlds. We should give users the |
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power to tweak things, but we shouldn't force them to play with config |
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files all day long just to have a functional system. If users want to |
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care we let them care instead of telling them "don't touch" like most |
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other distros, but if they don't care we still provide reasonable |
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defaults. |
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Rich |
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