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

["Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@gentoo.org>]

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.

> The very nature of Gentoo leads to situations where you'll get
> requests from other devs to add support for crazy stuff to your
> packages (X32, prefix, init systems, etc).  As long as somebody else
> is willing to do the work to maintain it (as a developer or proxy) and
> it doesn't hurt conventional users, we should cooperate.

With x32, I generally refused to apply the patches to x11 maintained packages
before they had upstream ack first.


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn