On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:44 AM, pk <pete...@coolmail.se> wrote: > On 2011-07-07 09:30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Gentoo users have developed a certain expectation over the years, >> whereby devs will take user needs seriously and go to extra-ordinary >> lengths to support everything under the sun. >> >> That's what Gentoo does. That's how the system by and large works, and >> that's what users have come to expect. It's unreasonable for a dev to >> think they can willy-nilly change that based SOLELY on their own >> opinion, as the greater community was not built around that behaviour. > > I think so too. There should be some sort of consensus, at least among > the developers (I think most, that I've come across, are reasonable and > listen to us users) before they do something like this... In a sense, > removing options (USE) at the sole discretion of the developer will make > Gentoo look like any other Linux distro. Options that the user can > decide is what makes Gentoo unique. > > Best regards > > Peter K
+1, although what we don't know from reading only the bug report is whether the decision was in fact made by the individual dev or is part of a larger consensus in the dev community. Without that info I don't think it's appropriate to draw any specific conclusions about what is motivating this change. I do think that if the user community was to ask the dev community (nicely now!) ;-) about this that we'd get a reasonable answer, or at least some greater understanding of what's driving the decision. Cheers, Mark
