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Autor: Hendrik Boom
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A: dng
Assumpte: Re: [Dng] Devuan commitments - will trade-off be applied?
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:04:17PM +0100, Didier Kryn wrote:
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>     True. This description of the project contains already a lot of
> the ideas we are shaking on the list.

>
>     There are still concerns about the fact that some of the
> software we use are big hairballs and enforce technical lock-ins.
> Eg. the Linux kernel and the X-Window system. There's also the issue
> of non-free binary blobs, like proprietary firmwares and drivers. We
> must accept some of these for the sake of having a working OS.

>
>     BUT, everywhere there is choice, the solution(s) in the spirit
> of KISS and UNIX shall be preferred and the others rejected. Only
> when we haven't the choice will we install the non-KISS/non-UNIX.


Exactly. Prioritizing, not prohibiting.

>     Do you think it could be a valid criteria, "Software violating
> GPL, KISS or DOTADIW is accepted only if there is no possible
> replacement" ?


Let's not screw existig users by kicking something they are relying
on out of the archives when a clean alternative becomes available.
Leave it out of the default install, perhaps.

Prioritizing, not banishing.

-- hendrik