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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:50 AM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/31/2013 01:46 PM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: |
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>> We're not Debian, and that is a good thing™. |
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> You miss the point. This thread is not about banning ebuilds which let |
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> you install unfree software. |
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You're thinking of gNewSense, or one of the 47 distros on the FSF |
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webpage that nobody has heard about. :) |
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I won't throw in my own two sense. Personally, I'm on the fence here. |
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I think this is a matter of values and largely boils down to ESR vs |
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RMS to some extent. I would say that those who want to make a change |
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probably have the burden of justifying the change. You don't need to |
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explain your rationale - you've already done a great job with that. I |
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think the bigger hurdle is whether the community buys in, though this |
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will only impact new users. |
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If there were some easy way to take a poll it might be interesting to |
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see the results. Dare I suggest a forum post? |
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To be constructive, I think I'll try building a desktop in a VM and |
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just see what the day-to-day impact of your proposal actually is. |
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Nvidia drivers really only come to mind as the biggest stumbling block |
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for most - the days of proprietary codecs and such are mostly behind |
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us I think. Those who oppose the change might point out specific |
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"killer apps" that this gets in the way of. |
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Rich |