From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcfX4-0001Me-DD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:03:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l92Ar53M010098; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:53:05 GMT Received: from mail.marples.name (rsm.demon.co.uk [80.177.111.50]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l92AniTi005189 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:49:44 GMT Received: from [10.73.1.31] (uberlaptop.marples.name [10.73.1.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.marples.name (Postfix) with ESMTP id C48D9190038 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:49:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: sh versionator.eclass From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200710020628.47971.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200710012259.40589.uberlord@gentoo.org> <20071002094920.GL24867@gentoo.org> <1191319761.6284.35.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <200710020628.47971.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:49:21 +0100 Message-Id: <1191322161.6284.70.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 438f6ee1-2fee-4378-b3dc-e4914d49bed4 X-Archives-Hash: 58833349430c65edc9ebe4abe354b61e On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:28 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > project X says their code should be compiled with GCC, should we deny > > the ICC users the ability to compile it? > > that is project X's decision and no one else's. dont pull a stallman on us > and force everyone to subscribe to your ideas of "freedom". there's a reason > we told him to take a hike. We change upstream decisions all the time via patches and USE flags when we as developers think that it could be done better, to make it fit into our file layout. Roy -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list