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On 15 June 2013 12:50, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Is Gentoo really a loose association of individualists who care about nothing |
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> but their own stuff, and give a $(/%& about users or the distribution as a |
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> whole? |
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Gentoo is not a regular distribution. It is a meta-distribution. This |
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is because of the nature of the packages and the project structure. |
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What this means is that each project/herd is a well-defined, |
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independent, sell-contained entity which deals with a subject of |
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packages. Each project is free to do whatever it wants to do, without |
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having to justify its actions to anyone. You may complain as much you |
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want in the mailing list that eg postfix is terribly broken, deviated |
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from upstream, dev FooBar is non-cooperative, etc etc but in practice |
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nobody (except the net-mail members) can do anything to help you. |
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So yes, individual developers/project can do whatever. They may please |
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the users or they many not. Sad? yes. True? yes |
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The Council is supposed to somehow control inter-project |
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communications when the developers fail to do so, but this rarely |
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happens. |
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I suggest to take that into consideration during the upcoming Council |
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elections. If you don't like the current situation, be part of the |
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decision making. Yet another recycled thread in the mailing list will |
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certainly not help. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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