[Nix-dev] The Church of Suckless NixOS is looking for followers

[Matthias Beyer]

On 18-03-2017 21:23:36, Jookia wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:10:51AM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > On 18-03-2017 11:39:15, Jookia wrote:
> > > Having enough interest to get forked is certainly a good thing. Who 
> > > knows, maybe NixOS will join the ranks of other distros with 
> > > spin-offs.
> > 
> > Oh please no!
> > 
> > Whether it is a good thing what is proposed here or not - we really
> > should try to hear all voices and try to get the best of all worlds
> > Having many spinoffs won't help anyone and result in a _lot_ of work
> > duplicated. That is _never_ a good thing.
> 
> That's one way to look at it. Another way to look at it is that duplicated work
> is a cost of doing a fork, and if you're okay with it then it's not so much a
> big deal as long as the people doing the duplicated work are ok with it.
> 
> In the end, people would use what they want to use. :)

But then you have to think about why these people are doing it.  
Clearly because they think they can do something better - which is 
fine IMO.

But if a fork is necessary this also means their voices were not heard 
when they announced that things are not optimal for them - which means 
bad community management. If they did not tell the community what they 
dislike, though, I fully agree with you.

-- 
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Kind regards,
Matthias Beyer

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