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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 07:54:59
Message-Id: 1369554882.2884.5.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697) by Ben de Groot
1 El dom, 26-05-2013 a las 15:23 +0800, Ben de Groot escribió:
2 [...]
3 > But it isn't even like that. I'm not taking away anyone's freedom to
4 > use systemd.
5
6 You are doing as you are forcing them to have a semi-usable setup when
7 merging packages.
8
9 > You can do so if you wish. You can add unit files to your
10 > system by yourself, or use an overlay. There are various ways this
11 > could be realized even within Gentoo.
12
13 Who are you to force people to use an overlay? Why are you forbidding
14 the inclusion of unit files? Maybe you could also have a separate
15 overlay called "systemd-haters" to maintain that ebuilds done to
16 obstacle systemd usage.
17
18 >
19 > But you seem to dismiss all of those, and will only be happy by
20 > forcing maintainers to add support to packages they maintain, even if
21 > they believe it is a bad idea.
22 >
23 Nobody is forcing you to maintain that unit file: the unit file will be
24 maintained by the other co-maintainer or systemd team if he cannot do
25 that.