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On 26 May 2013 00:48, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:14:36 +0800 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Unless I am mistaken, we did NOT agree anywhere that Gentoo |
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>> maintainers MUST add systemd support when upstream does not ship such |
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>> files. |
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> We did agree that Gentoo maintainers are not supposed to work on |
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> enabling systemd support if they don't want to. |
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OK, that sounds good. |
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> On the other hand, we |
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> also agreed that they shouldn't refuse unit files if anyone else |
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> does the work for them. |
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Where is this policy documented? |
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>> [...] |
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>> And you misunderstood: it is systemd that is aggressively opposed to |
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>> Gentoo. But apparently that doesn't bother some of our developers and |
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>> Gentoo is becoming more and more welcoming to it. |
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> Protecting freedom through taking away the freedom of using systemd? |
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> Makes sense really. |
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That would be similar to the way the GPL protects software freedom. |
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Does that not make sense to you either? |
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But it isn't even like that. I'm not taking away anyone's freedom to |
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use systemd. You can do so if you wish. You can add unit files to your |
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system by yourself, or use an overlay. There are various ways this |
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could be realized even within Gentoo. |
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But you seem to dismiss all of those, and will only be happy by |
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forcing maintainers to add support to packages they maintain, even if |
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they believe it is a bad idea. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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