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On 09/10/2015 02:44 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:33 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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>> So this makes no sense, since it's already an unsupported corner case. |
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> Just what use of Gentoo do you not consider an unsupported corner |
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> case, which isn't already better supported by some other distro? |
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> The whole point of using Gentoo is having "support" for all those |
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> "unsupported corner cases." If you just want everything to support |
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> doing things in the one way which is most supportable, you're |
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> basically doing a really bad job at re-inventing Debian. |
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> I use quotes around support since all support on Gentoo is |
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> best-effort, and that is all I'm getting at here. If a package |
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> maintainer can support multiple configurations and are willing to do |
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> so, they should be encouraged to do so. |
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So we are breaking consistency and introduce maintenance and |
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configuration complexity, because we want to support a corner case that |
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isn't consistently supported anyway and will not be (because that's what |
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the gnome team said and most upstream maintainers do). |
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You'd actually have to start forking upstream projects if you are |
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serious about this. Everything else is just fighting the deprecation, |
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which will come anyway. |
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I think a lot of people just go wild when they see configure switches |
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and stuff everything into USE flags without really considering the |
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impact or the usefulness. |
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It's not all about choice, it's also about sanity. |
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