On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:57 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > It is not an upstream fork, it is a configuration/installation > approach that follows upstream's recommendations for install locations. > It also allows the user more choices wrt which parts of systemd are > built or installed and allows more fine-grained use dependencies for > other packages.
Thanks. Might not hurt to document somewhere (wiki/etc) so that users can make an informed choice and to understand the contrasting philosophies. Dennis recently blogged on this topic. While cooperation should always be done when possible, if somebody really feels there is value in having an alternative I really don't see the problem. The main concern I'd have is coordination with other packages - for example I'd hate to see the unit files going into different places since that would make it impossible for other packages to determine where the user wants them (units might be installed before either implementation is installed). If conflict between alternative implementations starts creating problems for the rest of the distro then it only makes sense for the council to step in. Rich
