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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, t3sserakt <t3sserakt@posteo.de>
Subject: Re: GuixSD on arm
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:23:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87furo1ok4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160704221828.GA15580@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (Jookia's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2016 08:18:28 +1000")

Howdy Jookia,

Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis:

> - Patches would get lost regularly.

Lack of responsiveness is terrible, but I think it’s easy to complain
about it until one gets involved in patch reviews.

Also, some reviews are more difficult than other: adding support for
another bootloader is not as simple as upgrading a package.

> - GNUness over pragmatism.
>
> The main issue I had with doing an ARM port is the bootloader, and this is
> because everyone I spoke to except Ludovic seemed to be hesitant towards using a
> bootloader other than GRUB.

I wrote repeatedly that using U-Boot is fine, especially if GRUB doesn’t
work on this platform.

> I have a distinct feeling this is due to a bias in building "the GNU system"
> rather than building a fully free Guix-based system.

There is this bias, which makes a difference from most other distros.  I
don’t think I/we are blind though: when GNU lacks the right piece of
software, using another free software package is the right thing to do.

> This experience has put me off of Guix, GNU and free software development.

I think you’re throwing the baby with the bathwater.

Thanks for your feedback,
Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-07-05  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-04 14:02 GuixSD on arm t3sserakt
2016-07-04 15:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-04 16:13   ` t3sserakt
2016-07-04 17:14     ` ng0
2016-07-04 22:18       ` Jookia
2016-07-05  8:21         ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-07-05  8:23         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-07-05 15:44           ` Jookia
2016-07-11 11:47             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-05  8:53         ` t3sserakt
2016-07-05 21:49           ` Jookia
2016-07-11 11:49             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-07-05 12:08         ` ng0
2016-07-05 20:46         ` Ricardo Wurmus

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