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On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, pk <peterk2@××××××××.se> wrote: |
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> On 2011-07-07 09:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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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> I think so too. There should be some sort of consensus, at least among |
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> the developers (I think most, that I've come across, are reasonable and |
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> listen to us users) before they do something like this... In a sense, |
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> removing options (USE) at the sole discretion of the developer will make |
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> Gentoo look like any other Linux distro. Options that the user can |
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> decide is what makes Gentoo unique. |
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> Best regards |
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> Peter K |
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+1, although what we don't know from reading only the bug report is |
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whether the decision was in fact made by the individual dev or is part |
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of a larger consensus in the dev community. Without that info I don't |
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think it's appropriate to draw any specific conclusions about what is |
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motivating this change. |
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I do think that if the user community was to ask the dev community |
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(nicely now!) ;-) about this that we'd get a reasonable answer, or at |
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least some greater understanding of what's driving the decision. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |