>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:

> On 2021-06-16 13:28, Michal Prívozník wrote:
>> Why should we mangle with packages this way? I mean, to me Gentoo was
>> one of the few distros that allowed real choice for users (systemd vs
>> openrc, selinux or !selinux, etc.). We shouldn't be making choices on
>> behalf of users. The best we can do is to open issues for whatever IRC
>> client we have in portage to switch from freenode to something different.
>> BTW: not everybody is switching from freenode to libera.chat.

> I second that.

> Adding *our* network is one thing, like adding branding, but removing
> stuff we don't like is going to far.

*sigh* Please read my answer again. I haven't suggested that Freenode
should be removed, but my answer was misrepresented in the message
you're replying to.

Ulrich