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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se> wrote: |
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> Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending on |
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> systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to discuss |
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> if it's good or bad (more important, the place to change it!) would |
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> be within the Gnome project. |
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More or less, but again my goal was not to start another discussion - |
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just to inform. Anybody inclined to comment on whether this is good |
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or bad should go look at the list archives and see if any of the 400 |
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messages in the last month already covered their points. |
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> I guess Gentoo will always continue to offer the best of upstream. |
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I don't think Gentoo has to limit itself to what upstream supports (I |
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don't think anybody would look at Prefix and say that this was what |
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any upstream had in mind). However, the bottom line is that to do |
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something exotic takes effort, so nothing will happen unless somebody |
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makes it happen. |
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> OTOH, if upstream goes and make some change that means a regression |
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> for Gentoo users, then they deserve bug report floods from their users! :) |
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Perhaps, but don't count on it going anywhere. With Gnome 3 they must |
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already have pretty thick skin. I suspect upstream would say that if |
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you want a smooth desktop experience you shouldn't be running Gentoo. |
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To some degree they probably even have a valid point. Gentoo is about |
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more than a just-works desktop so I think the best we'll be able to |
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offer is a "reasonable" experience. If things get really integrated |
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you might see some Sabayon-like forks favoring particular DEs/etc, and |
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as long as those forks contribute to our main tree I think that is |
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good for all of us. |
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Rich |
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