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On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:14:31 -0400 |
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Olivier Crête <tester@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 18:49 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 |
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> > Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop |
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> > > trying to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. |
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> > Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS guys are trying to |
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> > impose their deep integration, tight coupling workflow upon the |
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> > rest of the world? |
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> We're imposing our deep integration because it's the only way to make |
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> a compelling platform that "just works", forcing users to tell the |
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> computer something the computer already knows is just plain lazy and |
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> stupid. |
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The problem with a platform that "just works" is that when it doesn't |
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work, no-one knows how to fix it. That's what's happened here: the deep |
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integration doesn't work in the common case that /usr is on its own |
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filesystem, but because of all the excessive coupling you're unable to |
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fix it and so are trying to pass the blame elsewhere. |
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The first step in fixing it is to decouple all of the horrible mess |
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that has been making its way into the base system over the past couple |
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of years. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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