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

[Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org>]

On 26 May 2013 00:48, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2013 00:14:36 +0800
> Ben de Groot <yngwin@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Unless I am mistaken, we did NOT agree anywhere that Gentoo
>> maintainers MUST add systemd support when upstream does not ship such
>> files.
>
> We did agree that Gentoo maintainers are not supposed to work on
> enabling systemd support if they don't want to.

OK, that sounds good.

> On the other hand, we
> also agreed that they shouldn't refuse unit files if anyone else
> does the work for them.

Where is this policy documented?

>> [...]
>> And you misunderstood: it is systemd that is aggressively opposed to
>> Gentoo. But apparently that doesn't bother some of our developers and
>> Gentoo is becoming more and more welcoming to it.
>
> Protecting freedom through taking away the freedom of using systemd?
> Makes sense really.

That would be similar to the way the GPL protects software freedom.
Does that not make sense to you either?

But it isn't even like that. I'm not taking away anyone's freedom to
use systemd. You can do so if you wish. You can add unit files to your
system by yourself, or use an overlay. There are various ways this
could be realized even within Gentoo.

But you seem to dismiss all of those, and will only be happy by
forcing maintainers to add support to packages they maintain, even if
they believe it is a bad idea.

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Cheers,

Ben | yngwin
Gentoo developer