On Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:57:37 +0200, Didier wrote in message
<848f652f-8b44-800f-88c1-da35cb0866f7@???>:

> Le 20/09/2017 à 20:07, Steve Litt a écrit :
> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 11:31:38 -0400
> > John Franklin <franklin@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> That said, there are plenty who either like it or at least have
> >> gotten used to it. If we could get Gnome working here, it would
> >> attract more users to Devuan.
> > Serious question: Do we want that kind of user? Somebody who knows
> > enough to discern a difference between Gnome and Xfce, but doesn't
> > understand how interchangeable WMDEs are, nor how much work it would
> > take Devuan to keep on undoing all the systemd dependencies Gnome
> > will doubtlessly keep sewing into Gnome?
> >
> > You can't please all the people all the time, and prioritization of
> > resources means some are simply going to choose other distros.
> >

>      In other words, should Devuan try to seduce those people who
> just look for a gratuitous Windows? This is typically what Gnome is
> doing.

..it more like they have (successfully) seduced developers into
wasting their time on less than worthwhile code to help the guy
who started GNOME.ORG "earn a job at Microsoft", _somehow_.

.."yes, Qt licensing sucked, yes, sysv is old and sucks, but
you say the fix is Gnome and systemd???????????????????" ;oD

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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