2007/4/5, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx>:
I think this is a very wrong direction for fedora. Free software is about choice. And also being able to test innovative technologies.
Free software is indeed about choices, but creating a distribution is also about making choices. If the distribution does not make them, but leave them to the user, then a distribution is nothing more than collection of packages bundled together.
The default init system should be privileged, but all should be present, such that power users are able to test and use them. The directions that developers and packagers want to follow, how they spend their time is their business. If there are enough people interested in new init systems, lets have them. As a project we have to watch out the packaging quality, the integration in the distro and have good defaults. Our mandate should not to be in the way of initiatives.
Power users are indeed welcome to test new things. That does not mean that everything has to be in the main repositories and thereby risking breaking things for many users. I remember asking many years on #fedora why some cheezy window manager that I wanted to try wasn't available in Fedora. My question was exactly the same as yours: "Isn't free software about choices?". The answer I got was the same as the one I've given here. This lead me into a dark journey through many distributions, looking for the answer. But eventually I grew up, and wanted a distribution that made some sane decisions for me, and not forcing me to deal with every little detail of the system. -- Trond Danielsen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
