Simon Stelling posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:28:46 +0200:
> Carsten Lohrke wrote: >> On Friday 07 April 2006 04:26, Donnie Berkholz wrote: >>> I also share the opinion that we shouldn't go against upstream wishes >>> IRT branding, but if upstream encourages some fairly subtle branding >>> along with keeping their name visible, I'm for it. >> >> There's a thread in gentoo-core from 2004 with regards to branding and >> the outcome was to refrain from it. I don't have a problem, when we do >> this for live iso's, but generally I strongly dislike it. Users don't >> choose their distro because of it, so it's just unnecessary bloat. And >> given that we tout Gentoo a meta distribution, encouraging others to >> build on it, there's no point forcing them to have to clean out the >> Gentoo brand, before they actually can use it. > > He said he wanted to make it easy, not forcing it. Or am I mistaken? Something like a metapackage that deps on gentoo-xcursor and similar packages, maybe? That would unify installation/merging. Include an emerge --config script that in turn unifies the configuration? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
