On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:14:04 +0200, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> wrote: >On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 09:12:32AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> There is a different between "I don't care about portability" and "I >> won't accept any patches that are only useful on non-Linux platforms". > >> The former could be remedied by submitting documented and maintained >> patches, which saves the world from early forks that ae bound to >> diverge. The latter attitude is a showstopper. > >It's not a showstopper if the software is Linux-specific to begin with, >like udev. Which, btw, systemd depends on. If udev were introduced today, >would we block it because it doesn't work on kfreebsd and udev upstream >does reject any portability[1] patches added?
The migration to udev didn't cause double work for daemon maintainers. Supporting systemd _and_ something portable is work for me, work for you, work for the maintainers of at least 105 other packages (samples from the system I am typing this on). Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1s4vp8-000095...@swivel.zugschlus.de
