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hasufell posted on Thu, 10 Sep 2015 10:47:26 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On 09/10/2015 08:21 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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>> For me to not support gtk2 in the spacefm ebuild would be providing a |
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>> package inferior to upstream. |
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> That sounds like spacefm with gtk3 is lacking anything. It is not. |
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> Providing choice for the sake of choice is not always a good idea. |
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Nothing personal, but... |
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Seeing this coming from a gentoo dev, where user choice and control is |
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viewed as a virtue, is a shame. There's a reason gentoo has USE flags |
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and doesn't default to binaries. |
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Particularly where upstream is deliberately providing the choice, |
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specifically to allow the users that choice, having gentoo abort that |
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choice seems to stand in the way of everything gentoo and Larry the cow |
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is about. |
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(Tho I must say, it does sound like typical upstream gnome think. |
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Restrict user choice, it's for their own good! I've never understood how |
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some gentooers could tolerate such an attitude and use gnome as a |
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preference, as it really is antithetical to gentoo's whole stance on |
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choice, but of course given that there are devs willing to make it |
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available, removing gnome as a choice for those who wish to go that way |
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would be antithetical to that ideal as well, so there you have it.) |
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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 |
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