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From: Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@××××××××××××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: Tom Wesley <tawesley@×××××.com>, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] preference concerns over "gentoo-ization" of packages
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:25:31
Message-Id: 200309290925.30072.tdickenson@devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] preference concerns over "gentoo-ization" of packages by Tom Wesley
1 On Sunday 28 September 2003 23:37, Tom Wesley wrote:
2 > On Sunday 28 September 2003 16:53, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
3 > > When you log out of kde, and you started your system with kdm (kde
4 > > display manager) you get presented a nice dialog with the options to log
5 > > out, reboot, or shutdown. However if you started the system with any
6 > > other displaymanager, such as gdm, you don't get the menu. It would be
7 > > conceivable that we at a point in time added patches to kdm so that it
8 > > does the same with gdm (which provides the capabilities as gnome offers
9 > > it too, but only for gdm).
10 >
11 > Should this not be patched upstream, and only included in Gentoo as an
12 > option (use-flags or such) until such time as included in main source?
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14 This policy was the number one main reason that first attracted me to Gentoo.
15 Surely this policy has been an important part of Gentoo since its beginnings
16 (See 'Rant' on http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-dist2.html).
17 Recently the Gentoo-Hardened team in particular have been aggressive in
18 pushing their changes upstream.
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20 I wouldnt want to see this change.
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