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On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:28:34 -0500 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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| He's not "screwing up" anything. He's making changes he wishes as the |
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| author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, |
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| they can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just |
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| wonderful? |
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Forking is a rather extreme option, not something one does on a whim... |
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| Seriously, Roy can work on whatever he wants how he wants, |
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| just like any of the rest of us. Anyone who doesn't like it can |
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| simply fork the project, or even create a new project to replace the |
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| functionality provided by this package. |
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Except we already know that that's not the case. Take, for example, the |
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non-GNU-utility changes that the ppc-macos people tried to force upon |
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Gentoo. It's a fairly obvious example of how people cannot and should |
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not be allowed to screw things up just because they want to scratch an |
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itch. |
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| It happens all the time. I seem to remember it happening with this |
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| package manager we all are familiar with... |
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Ooh, an ad hominem! |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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