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On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 23:24 -0400, Richard Yao wrote: |
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> GNOME is part of the GNU project, so we should be safe unless they |
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> decide against portability. OpenSuSe and Mageia are other distributions, |
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> so they are not upstream for us. |
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With my GNOME hat on: |
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GNOME does not take any marching orders from RMS or anyone else in the |
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GNU project. We will do any changes that we believe are necessary to |
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produce a better end user experience or to make our code more |
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maintainable. If that means adding dependencies that are Linux specific, |
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we will do it. And we have done it before, for example, we have |
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dependencies on udev for certain features. |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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