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Randy, |
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I don't want to continue rehashing the whole thread, as you and I are |
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essentially in agreement. |
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I do want to take this opportunity to highlight something we techies |
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overlook almost all the time: |
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We are human, and humans are not logical. We do not run on bash scripts |
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and don't have a CPU in our heads. Sheldon and Spock are fiction :-) |
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We humans run on emotion and the fuzzy-feel-good chemicals we squirt |
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into our brains, and techies are probably the worst equipped to spot |
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when it kicks in! And so: |
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On 28/04/2013 18:02, Randy Barlow 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 ON |
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>> > ALL LINUX MACHINES NOW AND IN THE FUTURE. |
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> Well, this will be the case if nobody forks these projects, or writes |
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> competing projects. As Dale has pointed out, there already is eudev. For |
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> systemd, you have OpenRC as an alternative. For Pulse, you can just use |
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> a different DE. I understand that you don't like the direction that |
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> these projects are going, and I'm not attempting to convince you to like |
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> or use them. I'm just trying to point out that there are viable |
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> alternatives. |
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It's easier to whinge, moan, complain and insist that devs rollback the |
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latest change than go through all the effort of running a fork. But it's |
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not always about what the dev wants. A good dev will listen to what his |
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users desire and incorporate that into his planning, this too seems to |
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be hardwired to a degree in our brains. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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