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On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 08:37:57PM +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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> hasufell schrieb: |
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> >> They can each have their own ebuild in portage. I do not think that overlays |
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> >> are the solution here. |
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> > That idea is so bad I hope we will never see it happen. |
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> That's what GLEP 39 explictly allows. |
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I have to agree on this point. glep 39 allows, and should allow |
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competing projects. |
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> >>> Will that make any1 |
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> >>> reconsider his attitude about being a maintainer and realize that it |
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> >>> means to serve the _user_? |
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> >> |
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> >> No, it means to scratch an itch. |
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> > I think we will not improve as a distro if we do not redefine our |
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> > priorities. |
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> > I have the feeling that our work is not user-centered anymore, but |
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> > developer-centered and that concept is simply wrong and no sane business |
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> > manager would ever disagree. |
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We are a group of volunteers, not a business, so I'm not sure how much |
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the business model can apply to us. |
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> If you want a user-centric distro which is run by business managers, that |
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> niche is already occupied. If Gentoo tried to achieve a linear user |
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> experience, putting uniformity over diversity, then we'd just become a poor |
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> copy of Ubuntu. Would it increase our user base? Probably. Would it still be |
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> Gentoo? I'm not sure. |
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By the nature of being a source based distribution, we can offer a |
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uniform user experience without being a poor copy of any binary |
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distribution, and that uniform user experience could be far more |
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flexable than any binary distribution. |
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William |
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