Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El dom, 26-05-2013 a las 08:55 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
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> > As far as resisting systemd, why is that so bad? Vertical integration is
> > generally a bad idea with the sole exception of when your use case(s)
> > line up perfectly with the ivory tower and you need all of the offered
> > features. If Gentoo falls to systemd, there will literally be no
> > Linux-based distros left to prevent it from taking over, and as a result
> > Linux-based systems will become more and more tightly integrated,
> > killing the choice that Gentoo truly stands for and homogenizing everything.
> 
> It is bad because ebuilds are not place to put politics into. If you
> want to become dev, you should understand this. We are supposed to be
> serious people. Serious people don't break user systems or refuse to
> support them in the name of manifesting their wishes.
> 
> It is bad because it's not systemd that's losing, it's Gentoo. Except
> for the fact that there's just a few people that take Gentoo seriously
> these days.
> 
> Upstreams clearly show that they don't care. We can either sit
> in the corner and resent, or we can work on improving the situation.
> And going on flamewars or manifestations doesn't really improve
> anything, you should know that by now.
> 

It's also bad because you are affecting to a lot of people that can/want
to use systemd, forcing you to have semi-usable setups because of your
personal preferences.