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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] LibreSSL, introduce virtual/openssl
From:       hasufell <hasufell () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2015-01-27 0:54:34
Message-ID: 54C6E1CA.9010509 () gentoo ! org
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On 01/26/2015 01:08 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
>> Rich Freeman wrote:
>>> I personally find it annoying when people fork projects, decide not to
>>> maintain ABI compatibility with the original project, and then keep
>>> filenames the same/etc such that the packages collide in their
>>> recommended configurations.
>>
>> Some people do it on purpose, with the outspoken goal of doing
>> maximum harm to the original project and lock users into the fork.
>>
> 
> In such cases it probably would be helpful if distros talked to each
> other and agreed to hack the build so that the new files would not
> collide.

That's the worst of all. Let's not become debian, please.

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