Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: linux-firmware

[Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>]

Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> The policy is also because any ebuild relying on a network service
> to work cannot be assured to work at any point in time

While noble, I think it is a bit naïve. Reality is that many if not
most ebuilds *anyway* rely on temporal things - such as a current
enough versions of portage, or a new enough profile, or tar and sed.

Requiring git and a network connection is the restriction imposed by
the copyright holder. There's really no way around that.


> depends on the network connection of the user, but it also depends
> on the service to be available.

Right, because those files can only be legally distributed by the
service on the network. No matter how much you and I think that
sucks, it is still the only way for the user to get that file.

It makes no sense to make that unneccessarily difficult for users.


> So don't even _think_ about trying to ask for an exception for Git,
> because you'll have to have it over my ssh key.

This is just trying to be a bully and acting like a drama queen,
which does nothing but make you look super silly, and that seems
completely unneccessary.

If you dislike something then you should express that in a more
mature manner so that people can actually take you seriously.

When you behave badly like this you just end up getting bad behavior,
spite and disrespect in return, even if it takes a while to reach you.


//Peter