Sorry for being completely OT now, will be the only mail on this from my side...
On Thursday, 13. October 2011 18:05:47 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:14:31 -0400 > > Olivier Crête <tes...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 18:49 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:00:23 +0530 > > > > > > Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbh...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > Then please continue with udev in package.mask and kindly stop > > > > trying to impose your workflow on the rest of the world. > > > > > > Isn't the point here that the desktop / GNOME OS guys are trying to > > > impose their deep integration, tight coupling workflow upon the > > > rest of the world? > > > > We're imposing our deep integration because it's the only way to make > > a compelling platform that "just works", forcing users to tell the > > computer something the computer already knows is just plain lazy and > > stupid. > > The problem with a platform that "just works" is that when it doesn't > work, no-one knows how to fix it. That's what's happened here: the deep > integration doesn't work in the common case that /usr is on its own > filesystem, but because of all the excessive coupling you're unable to > fix it and so are trying to pass the blame elsewhere. > > The first step in fixing it is to decouple all of the horrible mess > that has been making its way into the base system over the past couple > of years. in what way will exherbo deal wih this mess? Are there any plans? Feel free to mail me privately and/or answer this on the user-ML, I think some of us are quite interested. Thanks, Michael
