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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:09:25
Message-Id: 20140325150850.5fe9c8d5@sepulchrave.remarqs
1 On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:37:20 -0400
2 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
3
4 > On 3/20/2014 5:48 PM, »Q« <boxcars@×××.net> wrote:
5 > > Why should Gentoo have a default?
6 >
7 > Defaults are always a good idea - as long as they are reasonable and
8 > rational.
9
10 In that case, Gentoo is missing a lot of "good" things, from a default
11 system logger to a default desktop environment.
12
13 AFAICS, the benefit of defaults, provided they're reasonable, is that
14 they remove the burden of making choices from the user. But I keep
15 reading that Gentoo is all about user choice.
16
17 > > ISTM the only good reason is that not having a default would make
18 > > the documentation a lot more complicated.
19 >
20 > Documentation, *and* the install process itself.
21
22 I'm not seeing that at all.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>