Jan de Groot wrote:
Now you're propably saying numbers of downstream decisions doesn't say anything. Very true, which is why i prefer arguing about "intent"
aep@andariel: ~ grep Maintainer /var/abs/core/dbus-core/PKGBUILD # Maintainer: Jan de Groot <jgc@archlinux.org>
and "bias"
So, just because I'm the maintainer of a package that is required for a lot of the packages I maintain makes me biased.
Please read from top to down. This grep was to prove "intent". It is in fact, not required for alot of packages upstream, and especially there is no valid reason to put it in core.
we do specifically enable config-dbus, but dbus is a dependency anyways:
indeed, i am wrong on this one. hal is already upstream default.
aep@andariel: ~ (for i in $(grep "Jan de Groot" /var/abs/ -r | cut -d ':' -f 1 | cut -d '/' -f 5); do if (pacman -Si $i | grep gnome
/dev/null); then echo $i; fi; done) | wc -l 149
Ooh, so I'm the GNOME maintainer, what next?
please don't quote out of context. this statement was to prove your bias towards gnome, which in combination with the above dbus-core point, shows why this is a problem.
I never even installed Ubuntu on any system, how can I prefer it? Arch has thousands of packages that need to work together, sometimes you can't stick to your so called "unix philosophy".
Thank's for confirming once again that you do NOT wish to follow unix philosophy. This was indeed, the entire point of this rant. -- Arvid Asgaard Technologies