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On Sunday 28 Apr 2013 18:12:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 28/04/2013 18:11, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> >> What we complain about here is basic low-level software changes that |
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> >> > affect much more than just their own little universe, and will do it |
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> >> > ON ALL LINUX MACHINES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. |
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> > The source is out there NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. If there is enough |
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> > developers interested in maintaining something, it will be maintained; |
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> > but you cannot force no developer to maintain nothing. |
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> You keep saying this, over and over in many places for many reasons. |
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> But it just is not true. |
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> It's easy to get a dev to support something - you just ask them. |
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> Have you ever asked a dev to support something you needed? |
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Egocentric/maniac devs just listen to their own infallible desires, which |
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*they* call logic rather than the requests of their users. |
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In such cases, those of us who have neither the capability nor the time to |
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start coding the next fork which complies better with *nix design principles |
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and common sense, have to wait for some sensible solution to appear (e.g. |
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eudev) and run with that where available. |
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Ultimately, if some other dev(s) create /better/ code than Poettering that |
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closer matches the desires of many, I expect the monolithic |
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initrd+udev+systemd+what-ever will be ditched in favour of something more |
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flexible that suits a lot of us Gentoo users. |
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I can't wait for this to happen sooner, but since I can't code I can only but |
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hope. :-) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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