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Simon Stelling posted <4436690E.8010400@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:28:46 +0200: |
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> Carsten Lohrke wrote: |
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>> On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes |
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>>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding |
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>>> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. |
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>> There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with regards to branding and |
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>> the outcome was to refrain from it. I don't have a problem, when we do |
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>> this for live iso's, but generally I strongly dislike it. Users don't |
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>> choose their distro because of it, so it's just unnecessary bloat. And |
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>> given that we tout Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to |
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>> build on it, there's no point forcing them to have to clean out the |
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>> Gentoo brand, before they actually can use it. |
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> He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken? |
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Something like a metapackage that deps on gentoo-xcursor and similar |
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packages, maybe? That would unify installation/merging. Include an |
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emerge --config script that in turn unifies the configuration? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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