On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 08:20:28PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > The key misunderstanding here seems to be that initiation of a "Gentoo > project" means that the council explicitly supports it, because in most > distributions there is no choice available to end users at this level of > detail. > > Instead, in Gentoo, the council-level decision typically happens when > the *default* changes. Non-default or non-mandatory things are handled > in a nearly anarchic, ad hoc manner, where anyone can do pretty much > whatever they want as an official Gentoo project.
Yes, that was a big part of the misunderstanding. And thankfully the eudev project has now changed their README to not state that this is an official Gentoo project, which will cut down on the misunderstanding by others not familiar with the way that Gentoo handles its projects (i.e. the whole world :) thanks, greg k-h
