On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 10:27:44AM +0100, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > That was a particularly gray area because it's simply a matter of > > installing a package or not. Installing rsyslog but configuring it to > > log differently than the standard is another level of change (although > > of course also murky when other applications change their behavior based > > on the presence or absence of some other package). > Yeah; the idea behind the guideline is that you want documentation to be > generally valid, for example - if you have resources that have to say "if > you're on X, do A, if you're on Y, do B..." it gets very unwieldy very fast, > and makes it much harder for users as well. We obviously are going to have > some of this with the assorted desktop spins, but imagine that level of > differences spread to yum vs apt (as a theoretical bad example.) Agreed -- I think changes should be in proportion to the amount of separate branding the spin has. If I'm running something which configures the system in a very different way, I should *know*. -- Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
