[arch-general] Another rant on arch way abuse and false promises

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Arvid Picciani <aep at exys.org> wrote:
> Giovanni Scafora wrote:
>>
>> 2009/12/1, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>  When I started on here the mantra was "Arch is what you make it".
>>>  Packagers strive to make packages which are as vanilla as possible
>>>  (without breaking) and provide the utility expected of such packages. Of
>>>  course, if you want a system without hal/dbus, there's ABS and AUR. I
>>>  don't see why your dislike of particular implementations implies that
>>>  every user of Arch should forgo those implementations.
>>
>> I totally agree here.
>>
>>
>
> glad we all agree on that :)
> i'm about to post packages which work for both of us. They have been
> stripped of dbus and happen to be the upstream default.

Oh, I misread the intent previously. I was expecting bug reports of
the form "foo is broken, remove X and Y", but you're actually planning
on posting new-and-improved PKGBUILDs? It might be nice to include
diffs in that case, so it's easier to see what was done on a
change-by-change basis.