Hello, On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Linda Walsh wrote:
That's why it is how it is... you can just roll with them lying to your face to surreptitiously sneak this hack into the code, or you can realize that they'll do it again and again, and that there is nothing "Open" about Open Suse, and participation of the user community is only at the sufferance and as slaves doing the bidding of those behind the scenes, who will use the community to do their work, and when it doesn't suit them, will like to the community and implement solutions against the community behind their back -- and THEN expect there will be a large enough number of people who are apathetic who will just throw up their hands and say "what's done is done"...
Bullshit! Linda, as much as I don't like a lot that is going on, that stuff is not exclusive to openSUSE. A lot comes from upstream, like kde.org, gnome.org and freedesktop.org. What you're implying is just not true. There is a lot of stuff I dislike in openSUSE recently (e.g. the move to /usr), but, sadly, that stuff is everywhere else too. The move to /usr, systemd/upstart, udisks, udev, upower, the whole *(Console|Policy|Package|whatnot)Kit* kerfuffle, ... so far, I got away with only using udev (which still bugs me), but mind you, I had to "break" some deps getting there ... You get that even in gentoo (though you can overlay your own ebuild there, so you can get what upstream provides). -dnh, keeping track of the *BSD alternatives -- What boots up must come down. -- Paul Tomblin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org