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

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
> We are moving too quickly on bug #448882 ([Tracker] packages not providing
> systemd units).  We should come to better consensus on systemd integration
> and we were getting there with the idea of INSTALL_MASK. I don't know that
> it is a working solution yet.  I have to oppose adding unit files unless we
> have a way to opt out for reasons I gave earlier, regarding embedded systems
> where one needs to conserve space aggressively.  And we may have found a way
> to do so without cluttering ebuilds with USE flags.
>
> Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting out?  I
> can't support this initiative without such a solution and I would be happy
> to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test.

This already went before the Council, and the decision was that
INSTALL_MASK IS the working solution for opting out.  If somebody
wants to come up with a better one and propose it they're of course
welcome to, but in the meantime, INSTALL_MASK is the official
solution.

The whole point of having a Council is so that you don't have to reach
100.000000000% consensus on every single decision.

Rich