On Thursday 07 of February 2013 06:52:44 Peter Stuge wrote: > Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > > we as gentoo will provide both while preffered default will be what > > major distros use. > > What kind of careless mainstream attitude is that? Really?
Quite the opposite, decision to use implementation A over B was taken with utmost care for user in mind. > I mean: You are saying that given two options, Gentoo will do > whatever "major distros" are doing. > > (Never mind that Gentoo *is* a major distro, and whatever Gentoo does > generates collective bias just like whatever any other distro does.) We are not, let's not go too far, please. > Oops, I forgot - that would mean actually having to *get informed* first. > > "We as gentoo" must certainly avoid getting informed at all > cost!!!!111oneone > > Are you *really* quite serious? Please explain yourself. > > > If you disagree with that and you don't want your lead to make that > > decision > Hm? Where can I learn more about the "lead" ? So it is a single > person's decision, and not "we as gentoo" that decides? I'd like to > understand how this decision making process actually works. Does > anyone know? It depends - in distro-wide, package-tree-wide matters we have Gentoo Council. In local matters like this - who does the job decides. Tomáš does the job - he decides. > > which you and I both don't want. > > Guess what - I have been on the receiving end of the arguably > insanely lame mainstream attitude that you support, and honestly > > it fucking broke my heart > that people working on Linux distributions (it wasn't just Gentoo, > it was *every* distro) would be so genuinely uninterested in what > happens upstream, especially at a time where a downstream decision > may carry a bit of extra weight. > > I do not want that. > > (Around the time this happened to me I wrote roughly the same in a > private email to developers of another distribution which shall > remain unnamed. I found that email in a pastebin a few days later.) > > > It is long since clear to me that I have much too high expectations > on people. > > But are you *REALLY* not able to do *any* better than "default will > be what major distros use" ? > > Seriously? Seriously you should take a deep breath, walk a dog maybe :) regards MM
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