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On Monday 24 May 2004 06:59, John Nilsson wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:11, Duncan wrote: |
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> > Actually, that's what the freedesktop.org and lsb standards are |
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> > doing, in their respective areas. If you are really interested in |
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> > doing something upstream farther than Gentoo, and making it pretty |
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> > much universal, I'd get involved in one of those organizations. (In |
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> > this case, lsb would be the place to go, as freedesktop is more GUI |
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> > standards, not core system standards irrespective of GUI or CLI |
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> > choice.) |
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> |
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> In due time. The idea is still rather immature and the people most |
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> experienced with the implementation issues are gentoo developers. If |
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> it is this hard to convince gentooers about the technical merits, |
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> imagine the agony making a case to a more independent group. |
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The problem is not only in technical merits. The technical issues are big |
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but I'm quite sure it is possible to overcome them. However the biggest |
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impediment to this is organization. How are you going to make all those |
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hundreds of thousands of developers all follow the same direction. How |
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are you going to ensure that what they write is correct. It will still |
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be necessary to patch upstream packages as some will be broken. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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