From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@chemoelectric.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Wayland and X-Window
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:24:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131019162426.GA8092@crud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan$a27c6$b44197c5$5bcba4d7$4d251a29@cox.net>
Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> skribis:
> But I STILL can't figure out how someone can be a gnome gentooer, because
> it just doesn't make sense to me as to me the gentoo and gnome approaches
> are polar opposites. But they're out there. <shrug>
It’s not just that, but the Gnome approach is like the Microsoft/Apple
approach, of reducing choice while at the same time forcing one into
pet project, non-standard software. In this case, X is a very old and
relatively stable standard throughout the Unix world, and so should
not be treated as if it were an afterthought, no matter how much one
loves one’s own ideas. I plan to resist change towards something else
for as long as I can.
I view Gentoo not only as flexible but also as rock-solidly
conservative. So I have hope to be on solid ground for a long time to
come. It’s one reason I came back to Gentoo after using Exherbo for a
while -- those guys were following the trends too much for me!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-19 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-19 1:36 [gentoo-amd64] Wayland and X-Window Frank Peters
2013-10-19 7:11 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2013-10-19 15:10 ` David Klann
2013-10-19 15:38 ` Duncan
2013-10-19 15:11 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-19 16:09 ` Duncan
2013-10-19 16:24 ` Barry Schwartz [this message]
2013-10-19 17:35 ` Frank Peters
2013-10-20 0:15 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-20 14:15 ` Paul Jewell
2013-10-21 3:09 ` Barry Schwartz
2013-10-21 12:18 ` Rich Freeman
2013-10-19 17:01 ` Frank Peters
2013-10-20 13:36 ` Duncan
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