On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 03:56:01PM -0400, Jude Nelson wrote: > I think what we're after is a way to accept/reject software based on a > well-defined set of acceptance criteria. It sounds like we're trying to > say that the mission statement of Devuan is something like "Devuan > prioritizes the inclusion of Free Software that follows the Unix software > design philosophy," where "Unix software design philosophy" minimally means: > 0. A program is a file that contains executable data (e.g. a binary, a > script, or a library). > 1. Each program has a single well-defined responsibility. > 2. If two programs have orthogonal responsibilities, then they are > logically independent of one another's implementation (i.e. programs with > orthogonal responsibilities are not coupled to each other's > implementations). > 3. Functionality encompassing multiple responsibilities is obtained by > composing two or more programs (such as through piping, I/O redirection, > dynamic linking, and so on). > > By expressing our social desire to preserve the freedom of choice as a set > of technical software design points, we'll have an unambiguous way of > prioritizing programs for inclusion. For example, we can say "systemd does > not meet criterion #2, whereas the programs it replaces do; thus we will > not prioritize its inclusion over them."
That is, prioritizing rather than excluding. So we can still, for example, keep the linux kernel. :) -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
