[oe] [RFC] move to opkg

[Mike (mwester)]

Koen Kooi wrote:
...
> I believe these sorts of problems stem from the fact that you don't have
> the time to keep up with the pace of .dev, 

Bullshit.  You sent the RFC on Tuesday, with ZERO documentation on the 
impact.  See the email chain -- you were practically evasive on the 
impact to distro maintainers.  You them made the change on before even a 
week had gone by, a holiday weekend at that.  Actually it was closer to 
4 days (total) and no documentation at all for anyone to assess the impact.

No, the problem is that YOU didn't take the time to wait before you 
jammed a totally undocumented and insufficently-understood 
highly-invasive change onto the entire community!

so I really think distros
> like unslung are better of using the stable branch, instead of wasting
> energy trying to keep up with .dev.
You just jumped to a conclusion.  Unslung was mentioned ONCE.  This is 
the SlugOS distro - I haven't even gotten to try to untangle Unslung yet.

And no, this change was not yet ready for .dev -- this should have been 
on a branch where it could have been tested against other distros. 
Don't shove your pushing of an unfinished bit of work onto anyone else 
as their fault.

> That being said, I don't think OE developers sit at their desks trying
> to thinks how to make life difficult for distro maintainer.

Nope.  I don't think that either.  I think that merely one particular 
change got pushed because one particular developer decided it was too 
difficult for him to document more thoroughly and was too impatient to 
wait for more feedback.

> Koen

Now, how about a helpful email?  You sent your email accusing me of 
being to lazy and unable to keep up with .dev.  I've responded in kind 
with my email.  Koen, how about solving a problem instead of just trying 
to blame me?

Mike (mwester)