On 10/01/2008, David Zeuthen <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 01:57 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > My personal understanding of fedora was that a package was accepted as > > long as it was free software, usable in fedora, and decently integrated. > > Isn't it still the case? > > Sure, live free or die etc. But you cannot expect maintainers of core > packages to simply bend over just because you think it's l33t to e.g. > have a non Linux kernel. Moreover, I'm pretty sure, by just reading your > mails, that you don't realize what using a non Linux kernel even > entails. > > > In fact there are already guidelines and FESCo rulings that in my opinion > > went in that direction (precisely, and if I recall well, the fnord and > > another package of Enrico that were linked statically against uclibc, > > and even he demonstrated that there was a performance gain and no > > security issue they were knocked down). I think that it was a wrong > > decision, but if it is for corner case it is different than if it > > becomes the rule. > > Ooo.. here's the "it's in the guidelines so do as I say" card. Annoying. > > Seriously. People. What the hell happened to simplicity and building a > free OS for the world that just works? Is the state of Fedora really in > such a bad shape that people think it's necessary have craptastic > options like "what kernel would you like today?". Seriously, things like > that is just masturbation and we in Fedora should be above that. I feel > that people wanting this are treating Fedora like it's a playground for > their Toy OS ideas. Playing classic cards like "RH vs. community" and > "this or that committee says so" to justify their "ideas". It's > seriously tiring. Is this what Fedora is becoming? Because if it is, > I'll find something else to spend my time on. Not sure how arguing over kernel builds is akin to wanking but really this is a "My $DEVICE wont work under Linux" thread that should have started as a bz entry and has gotten out of hand so don't get too disheartened. -- Christopher Brown http://www.chruz.com -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
