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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 08:34:52PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:11:57 +0200 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o> |
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> | That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but |
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> | Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's |
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> | control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis |
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> | 1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it |
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> | (except fork the last GPLed version). |
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> And what if the Bash licence changes? Or the Python licence? |
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That's a bit different as these are dependencies. Paludis has those too. |
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Let's concentrate on the package manager - and as said there is no way |
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for Gentoo to have any influence on paludis. |
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> | If the paludis devs decide to |
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> | terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I |
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> | guess the list could be continued with other examples. |
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> | I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could |
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> | and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it. |
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> Yes, and the Bash developers *could* decide to make new Bash versions |
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> print out an ASCII art diagram of a BSD daemon sporking Larry. |
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Please don't turn this in another pink elephant argument. |
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> | As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have |
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> | some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever. |
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> And just what do you think would happen if the council were to demand |
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> that Portage implements a new feature? |
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Depends - but more than if it demands a new paludis feature. |
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> | As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do |
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> | with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which |
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> | has nothing to do with this thread. |
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> Sure it does. It's a perfect demonstration that the needs and demands |
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> of Gentoo have no influence over what happens to Portage. |
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Sorry, but all i see is bashing portage, and i don't really like it. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org |
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