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On Thursday 07 July 2011 10:12:43 微菜 did opine thusly: |
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> Devs can do what ever they think are right. Don't argue with them |
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> unless you pay them. Want gtk2 support? Put your ebuild in your |
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> personal overlay. |
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Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, |
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whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary |
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lengths to support everything under the sun. |
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That's what Gentoo does. That's how the system by and large works, and |
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that's what users have come to expect. It's unreasonable for a dev to |
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think they can willy-nilly change that based SOLELY on their own |
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opinion, as the greater community was not built around that behaviour. |
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Commit rights never gave a dev that power. |
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> On 2011年07月07日 00:35, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > Is there a secret plan in place to keep users from being able to |
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> > use Gtk 2 in packages that support both Gtk 2 and 3? And if |
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> > yes, why? Is the user considered too stupid to grasp the |
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> > awesomeness of Gtk 3 so that the devs have to force the choice |
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> > upon them? |
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> > I'm talking about this: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374057 |
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> > So why should users not be able to choose Gtk 2 with a USE flag? |
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> > What is the reason people use Gentoo? Isn't one of them the |
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> > ability of being able to rebuild packages with different USE |
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> > flags? |
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> > And what is happening to the developers lately? Some of them |
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> > have become hostile and arrogant against their own users. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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