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

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 25 May 2013 22:02:26 +0200
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn <chithanh@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Rich Freeman schrieb:
> >> Yet another stand. No offense but I'm afraid it's quite childish of you.
> >> I don't understand why you're so proud of it. It's a bit like 'Gentoo
> >> will play as I like. If it doesn't, then I will play against Gentoo.
> >> And if that doesn't help, I will resent and slam the door, and then
> >> write to ml about it.'
> > 
> > Honestly, if people want to have that attitude they might as well stop
> > maintaining anything that installs a daemon.  As a developer you have
> > NO power to prevent somebody else from co-maintaining, and since those
> > devs who use systemd are likely to want to have units and they're
> > willing to do the work, you can expect somebody to show up and add a
> > unit.
> 
> This is why I suggested that in case of uncooperative maintainers and
> upstreams, put the systemd unit in an extra package. Like it is done for
> selinux policies.

If we are to introduce split packages, we should start where doing it
where it actually *makes sense*, rather than doing that to work-around
stubbornness of uncooperative developers.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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