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Peter Stuge posted on Thu, 02 Aug 2012 07:36:07 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>> The fact that "other distros do it" does not constitute justification |
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>> for us to do it. |
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> Unfortunately that exact reason, along with "Fedora is doing it", was |
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> cited by a very active developer as reason to reject technical points |
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> which I tried to make a few times. |
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> But that is off-topic. Let's leave it for later. All I'm saying is don't |
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> underestimate pack mentality. |
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I don't know if it applies here, but there's a difference between "other |
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distros do it", and "that's the way upstream created it". If upstream is |
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effectively another distro, the first might be true as well, but gentoo |
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has always had a policy of trying to do it upstream's way unless there's |
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a good reason not to, and that's quite different than just following the |
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distro pack. (You likely know this already, but other readers may not, |
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so I'm emphasizing 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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