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unpopular, unwanted opinion: |
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just have users of a *source based distro* where the emphasis is |
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*choice* actually choose what they want? |
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What is the big deal with the way REQUIRED_USE works now? "Users have |
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to do something". You always have to do something when you run |
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source-based distros. If they don't want to do something, don't run a |
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distro that is source-based. Gentoo being about choice necessitates |
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knowledge about the choices you make before you make them. It will |
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never be truly "user friendly" for the noob set. And that's fine, and |
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that's where "friendly" forks like Sabayon and CoreOS and Adélie come in |
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. |
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I don't really want to see Portage's code base bloated with even |
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another solver that is poorly defined (and worse, this one would make |
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it in to PMS) just because users want to be lazy and Gentoo devs want |
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to enable laziness. |
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For the SSL/provider thing, I suggest just doing a DEPEND=ssl? ( |
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virtual/ssl ) where that is provided by openssl or libressl. If a |
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package doesn't support both, just DEPEND=ssl? ( whichever one it does |
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support ). [I actually suggested this some time ago, but was ignored |
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there, too.] |
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But hey, I'm not a Gentoo dev, so I really don't have a voice here. :) |
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- --arw |
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- -- |
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A. Wilcox (awilfox) |
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Project Lead, Adélie Linux |
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http://adelielinux.org |
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