On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:33:59 -0400 Sylvain Alain <[email protected]> wrote:
> The KDE team seems to work on that too : > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=134052539215508&w=2 it's actually worth it. more user-spread FUD or however you like to call it on the topic than I'm not sure if *devs* are actually working on that. I believe there's > Now I understand why some devs are working hard to make Mdev working > with OpenRC. different, you could as well disable USE=udev and use regular udev. equivalent to KDE/GNOME/whatever without anything? And if it's no But you are aware that KDE/GNOME/whatever+mdev would be practically > They want to replace Udev/SystemD with Mdev/OpenRC and solve this > situation. > > Sylvain aka d2_racing > > 2012/8/7 Rich Freeman <[email protected]> > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Peter Stuge <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yes, but if the upstream that is Gnome decides to start depending > > > on systemd features then that's their decision, and the place to > > > discuss if it's good or bad (more important, the place to change > > > it!) would be within the Gnome project. > > > > More or less, but again my goal was not to start another discussion > > - just to inform. Anybody inclined to comment on whether this is > > good or bad should go look at the list archives and see if any of > > the 400 messages in the last month already covered their points. > > > > > > > > I guess Gentoo will always continue to offer the best of upstream. > > > > I don't think Gentoo has to limit itself to what upstream supports > > (I don't think anybody would look at Prefix and say that this was > > what any upstream had in mind). However, the bottom line is that > > to do something exotic takes effort, so nothing will happen unless > > somebody makes it happen. > > > > > > > > OTOH, if upstream goes and make some change that means a > > > regression for Gentoo users, then they deserve bug report floods > > > from their users! > > :) > > > > Perhaps, but don't count on it going anywhere. With Gnome 3 they > > must already have pretty thick skin. I suspect upstream would say > > that if you want a smooth desktop experience you shouldn't be > > running Gentoo. To some degree they probably even have a valid > > point. Gentoo is about more than a just-works desktop so I think > > the best we'll be able to offer is a "reasonable" experience. If > > things get really integrated you might see some Sabayon-like forks > > favoring particular DEs/etc, and as long as those forks contribute > > to our main tree I think that is good for all of us. > > > > Rich > > > > > > -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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