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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 14:33:26
Message-Id: pan.2006.04.07.14.28.05.340055@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup by Simon Stelling
1 Simon Stelling posted <4436690E.8010400@g.o>, excerpted below, on
2 Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:28:46 +0200:
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4 > Carsten Lohrke wrote:
5 >> On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
6 >>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes
7 >>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding
8 >>> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it.
9 >>
10 >> There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with regards to branding and
11 >> the outcome was to refrain from it. I don't have a problem, when we do
12 >> this for live iso's, but generally I strongly dislike it. Users don't
13 >> choose their distro because of it, so it's just unnecessary bloat. And
14 >> given that we tout Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to
15 >> build on it, there's no point forcing them to have to clean out the
16 >> Gentoo brand, before they actually can use it.
17 >
18 > He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken?
19
20 Something like a metapackage that deps on gentoo-xcursor and similar
21 packages, maybe? That would unify installation/merging. Include an
22 emerge --config script that in turn unifies the configuration?
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26 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
27 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in
28 http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html
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