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

[Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina
<zerochaos@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Perhaps this was covered already, but how exactly did this one file,
> added by your co-maintainer, hurt you?  Did it cause additional bugs?
> Did it break a working ebuild?  Did it kill your cat?
>
> It would seem to me that the co-maintainer (a person who cares that some
> users are interested in systemd enough to add one file to the package)
> made the package support a slightly wider range of systems (gentoo is
> about choice) and this affects you in exactly no way.
>
> What am I missing here?  Are you just trying to force your will on
> others or do you have an actual issue caused by this commit?  It is not
> for us developers to force one way on the users, gentoo is supposed to
> be about choice, your co-maintainer chose to support systemd, an action
> which as far as I can see didn't harm you, and helped some users.  This
> has been a very long thread for something I don't get at all.  Please,
> seriously, what am I missing here?

Thanks for asking this. After reading the 34 emails in this thread, I
still have this question as well.