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On P, 2017-12-10 at 08:56 +0000, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 6:12 AM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 5:36 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@×××××××××.co. |
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> > uk> wrote: |
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> > > On Saturday, 9 December 2017 12:00:12 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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> > > > On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.co |
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> > > > m> wrote: |
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> > > > > Thank you all for detailed and clear replies. You'd forgive |
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> > > > > me for |
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> > > > > being (a little) paranoid about Poettering's fingers getting |
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> > > > > anywhere |
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> > > > > near my systems.> |
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> > > > > :-p |
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> > > > |
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> > > > Are you sure you need udisks? And policykit? |
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> > > |
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> > > I'm pretty sure Mick runs KDE, which requires both of those. |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > Eventually emerging @world will just pull in the entirety of the |
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> > Gentoo package repository, and we won't have to worry about what is |
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> > or |
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> > isn't necessary. |
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> > |
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> Not that I would object much to have gnome-common if I needed it (I |
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> don't), but it is a bit |
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> shocking that installing kde stuff pulls gnome stuff. After all, |
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> they're supposed to be alternative worldviews, er, desktop |
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> environments. Maybe the relevant people should stop and think whether |
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> unbridled complexity is a good idea? |
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So you are suggesting that each desktop environment must NIH |
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everything? |
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Want an auto-mounter and disk monitor and more for a modern desktop |
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experience - reimplement udisks. |
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Want a secure permissions handling framework for the desktop - |
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reimplement polkit. |
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Want a user account service handler for desktop logins - reimplement |
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accountsservice. |
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Want color profiles handling for monitors and co, and other associated |
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stuff - reimplement colord. |
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And so on. |
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That's all "GNOME stuff" by your definition, with GNOME Foundation |
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members being the project leaders or starters. |
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Meanwhile gnome-common is just a package for m4 macros for the older |
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autotools using world, and is deprecated in favor of autoconf-archive, |
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which had the good things of gnome-common integrated into it. Please |
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remove that package too, if you want to NIH. |
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People, this is open source. Stop advocating NIH and make use of the |
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benefits of open source and let the people actually doing stuff |
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collaborate on things and re-use/share projects as they see fit, for |
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less time waste and more making GNU/Linux (desktops) great over the |
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proprietary others. |
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