Gentoo is very open to providing users with the option of using new/different as long as they don't break existing things. I cannot say that many of us like design decisions being taken in GNOME/systemd, but as the long as the few interested in it do not interfere with existing things, they are free to package it as they see fit.
On 02/06/2014 01:30 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Hi. TL;DR, this is basically just a THANK YOU to the Gentoo devs, so > you can go on your daily business if you don't want to read the rest > of it. No biggie. > > I just want to say THANK YOU to all of our Gentoo developers. I've > been using Gentoo since ca. 2002 (damn, that's more than a decade), > and I've seen a lot of flamewars and bikeshedding on the -dev mailing > list. > > However, you guys get the job done, and although there are some things > that I would like to have sooner (or would have liked to have > earlier), in the end the people working keep pushing the necessary > changes so the distribution keeps going, and (if so desired) using new > and interesting technologies. > > More importantly, the developers and the bureaucratic structures they > have created don't get (too much) in the way of individual or small > groups of developers pushing for progress. In general at least; there > will be always someone resisting change, but in general Gentoo keeps > advancing, and the council and the other bureaucratic structures don't > punish people for just wanting to have more new and cool features in > the distribution. > > I've never said Thank You to all our developers in all these years > using Gentoo, but after seeing the discussion the Debian CTTE is > having related to the default init they should use[1][2][3] (including > bureaucratic maneuvers, dilatory tactics, legalese interpretation of > their rulings, etc.), I think the time is long overdue for me to do > it. > > Thank you for all the work you guys do and have done. > Thank you for not penalize progress. > Thank you for not being so rigid. > Thank you for keeping the distribution moving and evolving. > And finally, just thank you. > > From a proud Gentoo+systemd+GNOME 3 user, thank you. > > Regards. > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/threads.html > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/threads.html > [3] http://lwn.net/Articles/584227/#Comments >
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