Re: Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion

[Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> I appreciate the explanation, and I'm familiar with the contents of the
>> decision.  I simply see nothing there that should have motivated a
>> tech-ctte decision, rather than simply a couple of bug reports against
>> network-manager and an added Conflicts/Breaks or two.
>
> In other words, what you're saying is that not only is there no problem that
> the GNOME maintainers mandated that I get NetworkManager, which I personally
> most certainly don't want, but that the tech-ctte should have made a ruling
> that would have forced users to uninstall wicd too.  :-/  Not cool.

There are more choices than that. Users with this viewpoint could have
stick with the DE that they like but a network tool that they don't.
Or they could switch to another DE that isn't incompatible their
favorite network tool.

The GNOME maintainers are responsible for their island.  If they don't
want to support wicd or anything else, that is their choice.  It's
also the user's choice to go somewhere else.

Best wishes,
MIke