Steven J. Long posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:48:54 +0000 as excerpted: > I for one prefer a distro to do a bit of work and make my life easier, > since it makes life easier for everyone who uses the distro. Why the > hell should I care if some bindist can't etc-update? WTF does that have > to do with Gentoo?
Because if they can't etc-update, they'll come up with some other solution that might not work so well for gentoo, and as upstream for some number of packages they'll propagate that solution, causing more trouble for gentoo trying to fix the impedance mismatch between their way and ours. Which is basically where we're at. Upstream came up with this /etc/ config modifying a package-specific default config somewhere else random on the system idea because they didn't have a good etc-update, and now we have to figure out the most sane way to try to integrate that with gentoo's etc-update based system. If we'd have been able to propagate etc-update or similar before they came up with their solution, we'd not have this problem, but of course that's a historical if that we can't go back and revisit... except in possibly trying to get something like etc- update propagated now to reduce similar problems in the future. -- 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
