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On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 02:10 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Thursday 08 February 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > He's not "screwing up" anything. He's making changes he wishes as the |
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> > author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, they |
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> > can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just wonderful? |
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> > Seriously, Roy can work on whatever he wants how he wants, just like any |
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> > of the rest of us. Anyone who doesn't like it can simply fork the |
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> > project, or even create a new project to replace the functionality |
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> > provided by this package. It happens all the time. I seem to remember |
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> > it happening with this package manager we all are familiar with... |
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> |
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> that really isnt a valid stance to take with the package in question ... by |
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> this logic, i can turn around and screw with the toolchain and if no one |
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> likes what i'm doing, then that's their problem and they can go fork |
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> themselves |
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No. It fully applies. Notice I responded to him talking about |
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"baselayout-ng", which was after he'd already decided to leave the |
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current baselayout alone. So yes, he is completely free to do with it |
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as he wishes. If we don't like it, we just stick with the "old" |
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baselayout. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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Gentoo Foundation |
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