From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FgR85-0006VX-PG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:52:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k4HIlZAM031653; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:47:35 GMT Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HIZI00029833 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:35:18 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.140] (helo=anti-virus02-07) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FgQrd-0004uh-U0 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 19:35:17 +0100 Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1FgQra-0007fn-BW for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 19:35:14 +0100 Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:34:52 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Message-ID: <20060517193452.4a77b113@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060517181157.GA8220@superlupo.rechner> References: <20060516161549.442b4d8a@localhost> <20060516191631.GA18817@superlupo.rechner> <20060517092319.GA2997@superlupo> <20060517173238.6d364603@snowdrop.home> <20060517181157.GA8220@superlupo.rechner> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.1.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8a7eac7b-5a47-4995-b135-358c66fdcce5 X-Archives-Hash: 7abf1133680d0e0776a61883371635fa On Wed, 17 May 2006 20:11:57 +0200 Wernfried Haas wrote: | That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but | Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's | control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis | 1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it | (except fork the last GPLed version). And what if the Bash licence changes? Or the Python licence? | If the paludis devs decide to | terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I | guess the list could be continued with other examples. | I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could | and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it. Yes, and the Bash developers *could* decide to make new Bash versions print out an ASCII art diagram of a BSD daemon sporking Larry. | As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have | some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever. And just what do you think would happen if the council were to demand that Portage implements a new feature? | As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do | with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which | has nothing to do with this thread. Sure it does. It's a perfect demonstration that the needs and demands of Gentoo have no influence over what happens to Portage. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list