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I've used GNOME for a long time and never seen any sentiment like that. You'll also note that the GNOME project is split across many, many dozens of repos and i
by jdiff 3y ago
I've used GNOME for a long time and never seen any sentiment like that. You'll also note that the GNOME project is split across many, many dozens of repos and isn't one enormous monorepo. I've also never seen a distro that demands you install all the GNOME core apps. There's always a metapackage for just the basics as well.
- LtWorf 3y agoI don't think as a user your insight on what happens with the packaging is so relevant. Packagers patch and do a lot of things that upstream might not appreciate.
- jdiff 3y agoWhere's the evidence that upstream cares? Many package maintainers are also upstream project maintainers or contributors at a minimum. I may be "just" a user but as a user of the unstable version of my particular OS I've submitted my fair share of bug reports, both to the package maintainer and upstream, and maybe I'm hitting some sort of lottery but more often than not, there's overlap. I guarantee you that GNOME Calculator's devs don't have a care in the world whether a metapackage in some distro that includes their software has a hard or soft dependency on Network Manager. There is no upstream for a metapackage.