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On 9 February 2016 at 18:27, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> all the vitriolic attacks i get about eudev come from the gentoo |
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> community. outside of this community i get praise. |
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In case my earlier messages stating a desire to exercise much caution |
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gave the wrong impression, I just want to state for the record I think |
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its awesome eudev exists, and I think its awesome other distro's are |
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using it. |
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Just when it comes to "Change the defaults", I want to be certain |
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about the path we're setting ourselves up for on this very important |
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component, because here, a change of defaults paves a broader path for |
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eudev to be a potential leading competition to systemd. |
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Because if we do that, I feel we must be so sure of ourselves that |
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eudev can be a profitable choice for at least a moderately long term, |
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even in the event we get no more support from the systemd codebase. |
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Having it in tree and having users who know what they're doing being |
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able to choose their own risk factors and say "yeah, eudev is the |
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right choice for what I'm doing" is one thing. |
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But stating implicitly that "Hey, this is the default", this needs to |
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be the *best* recommendation we can make based on all the other |
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factors and other defaults Gentoo uses. |
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Because new users *will* be inclined to pick the default, and |
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*existing* users of the *current* default are likely to see the |
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default change, and reason "well, the default has changed, so the new |
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default is the new best thing", and will be inclined to switch. |
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And the worst thing we could have is a combination of bad defaults |
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that leads new users to have a poor first experience because they used |
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all the default recommendations, and their system made magic smoke |
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instead of booting. |
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In short, to change *this* default, it seems pertinent that we *know* |
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that the change we're making *is* better and a more reliable long-term |
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choice than the *current* default, and if there is *any reasonable |
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doubt*, we should delay changing until that reasonable doubt is |
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expunged. |
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Kent |
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