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On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:20:28PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> The key misunderstanding here seems to be that initiation of a "Gentoo |
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> project" means that the council explicitly supports it, because in most |
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> distributions there is no choice available to end users at this level of |
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> detail. |
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> Instead, in Gentoo, the council-level decision typically happens when |
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> the *default* changes. Non-default or non-mandatory things are handled |
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> in a nearly anarchic, ad hoc manner, where anyone can do pretty much |
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> whatever they want as an official Gentoo project. |
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Yes, that was a big part of the misunderstanding. And thankfully the |
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eudev project has now changed their README to not state that this is an |
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official Gentoo project, which will cut down on the misunderstanding by |
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others not familiar with the way that Gentoo handles its projects (i.e. |
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the whole world :) |
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thanks, |
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