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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LibreSSL, introduce virtual/openssl
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:54:47
Message-Id: 54C6E1CA.9010509@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LibreSSL, introduce virtual/openssl by Rich Freeman
1 On 01/26/2015 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote:
3 >> Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>> I personally find it annoying when people fork projects, decide not to
5 >>> maintain ABI compatibility with the original project, and then keep
6 >>> filenames the same/etc such that the packages collide in their
7 >>> recommended configurations.
8 >>
9 >> Some people do it on purpose, with the outspoken goal of doing
10 >> maximum harm to the original project and lock users into the fork.
11 >>
12 >
13 > In such cases it probably would be helpful if distros talked to each
14 > other and agreed to hack the build so that the new files would not
15 > collide.
16
17 That's the worst of all. Let's not become debian, please.