David wrote:
On 4/8/2009 11:25 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
David wrote:
Said more simply? This discussion is on the wrong list. You're talking to the wrong people. Actually it looks more like you are talking to yourselves.
Not quite: Setting up a distro and preparing packages to include them into a distro is a bit more than blindly following "upstreams".
It also means package maintainers to be "listening" to their "user-base", to communicate their user-base's concerns upstream and to deviate from upstream when necessary.
This discussion has me thinking about the last time I used C-A-B. And quite honestly I can't recall the last time. Certainly not recently.
As far as I am concerned: - Ca. 4 weeks ago, when trying to get my netbook working with an external monitor - Today, when something, I don't know, crashed X and left me with an entirely black screen.
I do understand that some users have problems and that some users need this. However the way I see it is that the change has been made and will not be reverting.
Which means one of two things.
Learn to live with the change. Or you change it back yourself.
Or ... - exchange upstream - exchange the fedora packager - switch the distro. - fork the distro (This change alone is easy to patch).
I think it would be appropriate to have FESCo interfere and let them vote on this matter.
Seems simple enough. One little change. I change many things from the defaults.
With each fedora release, I increasing change more. I am seriously asking myself why I am using a distro which is increasingly divering from my needs, and which I experience to be increasingly less usable wrt. certain aspects.