Rich Freeman schrieb:
> Double-standards aside, I don't think the "original" implementation is
> what matters, so much as what works best for our users (and ourselves)
> in practice.

I don't think the "original" matters either. But I wouldn't mind having
libusb over libusbx, jpeg over libjpeg-turbo (did you notice any speed
increase on your computer?), openoffice(-bin) over libreoffice.

Only if one implementation is vastly better than the alternative, then I
would expect the distro to make the sane choice. Else it can be choosen
randomly during each install for what I care.

> Others have pointed out that we don't have enough data to safely
> switch the default, and I think that alone is sufficient reason to
> hold off for now, but once that data is collected if it makes sense to
> switch we should do so. We don't use XFree86 or LILO,

Using LILO is still documented as an alternative to GRUB:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10#doc_chap3


Best regards,
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn


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