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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:37:04
Message-Id: 4436690E.8010400@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup by Carsten Lohrke
1 Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes
4 >> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding
5 >> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it.
6 >
7 > There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with regards to branding and the
8 > outcome was to refrain from it. I don't have a problem, when we do this for
9 > live iso's, but generally I strongly dislike it. Users don't choose their
10 > distro because of it, so it's just unnecessary bloat. And given that we tout
11 > Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to build on it, there's no
12 > point forcing them to have to clean out the Gentoo brand, before they
13 > actually can use it.
14
15 He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken?
16
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18 Kind Regards,
19
20 Simon Stelling
21 Gentoo/AMD64 Developer
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[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo theming during bootup Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo theming during bootup Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>