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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Discussing defaults (Was: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in virtual/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-9.ebuild ChangeLog ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1.ebuild)
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:34:38
Message-Id: 20130211233432.14047.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: Discussing defaults (Was: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in virtual/ffmpeg: ffmpeg-9.ebuild ChangeLog ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1.ebuild) by Luca Barbato
1 Luca Barbato wrote:
2 > > Users will never be satisfied. But I guess you agree that API
3 > > compatibility will certainly avoid extra problems for users.
4 >
5 > It is not related to users,
6
7 I was trying to come back on topic. :)
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9
10 > is related to me being called as swine a traitor and having death
11 > threats. *Slightly* less technical than discussing API.
12
13 That is of course not acceptable under any circumstance. I'm sorry to
14 hear that you had to deal with that. :(
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17 > > I don't think open source neccessarily is democracy, and of course
18 > > a disagreement about something fairly fundamental such as that can
19 > > be more than enough to cause a fork.
20 >
21 > The rules in Libav are quite well defined and decently enforced.
22 >
23 > Again, if you have ~15 people and one is deemed misbehaving by more
24 > than 10, which is the fork?
25
26 The fork is always the younger group, but who is "right" and "wrong"
27 is another matter.
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30 //Peter

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