> William is packaging upstream udev for Gentoo. > > You are shooting the messenger.
I expect there is 0 blame meant for William. P.s. Is it William that Lennart dished some blame in the direction of. I completely disagree. It's not the job of every distro to look for all build flags to fix some software's defaults because other software has some small issues. That's simply ludicrous and my best guess is it being a feeble attempt at reasoning an excuse. At the very least and like in many release notes, it should have been made clear that distros may wish to consider using that flag to keep the current behaviour whether any reason to do was understood or not. The thought strikes me now that in the reverse case their likely wouldn't be any justification for having a build flag? Debian having to patch KDE to use /etc for configs is simply wrong too. You are right though, I don't suppose it helps much airing any of it here. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________
