Rich Freeman schrieb: >> Yet another stand. No offense but I'm afraid it's quite childish of you. >> I don't understand why you're so proud of it. It's a bit like 'Gentoo >> will play as I like. If it doesn't, then I will play against Gentoo. >> And if that doesn't help, I will resent and slam the door, and then >> write to ml about it.' > > Honestly, if people want to have that attitude they might as well stop > maintaining anything that installs a daemon. As a developer you have > NO power to prevent somebody else from co-maintaining, and since those > devs who use systemd are likely to want to have units and they're > willing to do the work, you can expect somebody to show up and add a > unit.
This is why I suggested that in case of uncooperative maintainers and upstreams, put the systemd unit in an extra package. Like it is done for selinux policies. > The very nature of Gentoo leads to situations where you'll get > requests from other devs to add support for crazy stuff to your > packages (X32, prefix, init systems, etc). As long as somebody else > is willing to do the work to maintain it (as a developer or proxy) and > it doesn't hurt conventional users, we should cooperate. With x32, I generally refused to apply the patches to x11 maintained packages before they had upstream ack first. Best regards, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
