On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:27:44AM +0100, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > That was a particularly gray area because it's simply a matter of
> > installing a package or not. Installing rsyslog but configuring it to
> > log differently than the standard is another level of change (although
> > of course also murky when other applications change their behavior based
> > on the presence or absence of some other package).
> Yeah; the idea behind the guideline is that you want documentation to be
> generally valid, for example - if you have resources that have to say "if
> you're on X, do A, if you're on Y, do B..." it gets very unwieldy very fast,
> and makes it much harder for users as well. We obviously are going to have
> some of this with the assorted desktop spins, but imagine that level of
> differences spread to yum vs apt (as a theoretical bad example.)

Agreed -- I think changes should be in proportion to the amount of separate
branding the spin has. If I'm running something which configures the system
in a very different way, I should *know*.

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