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On 09/18/2011 07:27 AM, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> You mean that no Linux users, in particular anyone not running or not |
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> wanting to run GNOME and Fedora, shouldn't be worried about the way |
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> some people in the GNOME and Fedora community seem intent to impose |
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> their ways to everyone else? |
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As a Gentoo user, you can avoid installing software from those projects |
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as long as you don't require any software from them, and you don't |
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require any components that unconditionally depend on them. |
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> Worse, in the process seeming to want to |
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> convince everyone they found the panacea and that the "old unix ways" |
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> that have been around for 40+ years are all obsolete and that we |
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> should give in to "the collective"? |
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Generally speaking, Gentoo doesn't have the resources necessary to |
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diverge very far from upstream, so whether various Gentoo components |
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unconditionally depend on GNOME and Fedora projects is very much |
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dependent on the requirements imposed by various upstream software |
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developers (aka "the collective"). Like it or not, that's how it is. |
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Like rich0 said, you need to try to influence the upstream projects if |
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you are concerned about the the direction that they are going. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |