Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 8, 2016 15:48 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by rschroev
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

“Consensus.” You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

See RFC 7282:

Engineering always involves a set of tradeoffs. It is almost certain that any time engineering choices need to be made, there will be options that appeal to some people, but are not appealing to some others. In determining consensus, the key is to separate those choices that are simply unappealing from those that are truly problematic. If at the end of the discussion some people have not gotten the choice that they prefer, but they have become convinced that the chosen solution is acceptable, albeit less appealing, they have still come to consensus. Consensus doesn't require that everyone is happy and agrees that the chosen solution is the best one.