On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:28:34 -0500 Chris Gianelloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | He's not "screwing up" anything. He's making changes he wishes as the | author and maintainer of the package. If someone doesn't like it, | they can fork it and maintain their own package. Isn't that just | wonderful?
Forking is a rather extreme option, not something one does on a whim... | Seriously, Roy can work on whatever he wants how he wants, | just like any of the rest of us. Anyone who doesn't like it can | simply fork the project, or even create a new project to replace the | functionality provided by this package. Except we already know that that's not the case. Take, for example, the non-GNU-utility changes that the ppc-macos people tried to force upon Gentoo. It's a fairly obvious example of how people cannot and should not be allowed to screw things up just because they want to scratch an itch. | It happens all the time. I seem to remember it happening with this | package manager we all are familiar with... Ooh, an ad hominem! -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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