Comment by palata
9 days ago
> This is a contradiction. There is nothing "minimal" about a requirement that excludes every device but one.
I don't get your logic. Requirements are a choice. It's very easy to create requirements that exclude every device but one.
Example: "It has to be the Samsung Galaxy S23". Done.
Now you can disagree with those requirements, but that's completely different from saying that the requirements are wrong.
I disagree that such requirements are minimal. Nothing prevents running GrapheneOS on a device with lower requirements. It's a questionable choice by the developers restricting the choice for users.
(I agree with you in spirit, namely that GrapheneOS' standards are clearly beyond what most vendors are willing or able to do and a compromise or support of users who want to port the OS might be fitting for the current situation, but notice that the person you replied to never said "minimal", they said "minimum". I'm not a native english speaker but I believe your reading is a value judgement along the lines of "not much work" (in this context) whereas they probably intended it like a statement of fact regarding what the requirements are.)
Aren't requirements defined as the set of minimal constraints that are needed for something to be deemed acceptable by those who define that set?
Again, requirements are not laws of physics. As the author of a project, I am free to make up my own requirements, and when something doesn't meet them, then I am free to reject it because it does not meet my requirements...
If you go to a bank and they refuse to lend you money because you don't meet their requirement, you will have a hard time convincing them that their requirement are wrong and that they should instead replace it with yours :-).
It is not the job of GrapheneOS to lower their standards and deplete their resources supporting every phone under the sun. We already have LineageOS for that. I would rather not be snarky but I don't understand why people keep blaming GrapheneOS instead of the OEMs. Almost every single time.
I don't think that there is anyone to blame.
GrapheneOS has requirements that result in only the Pixels being supported. LineageOS has other requirements that result in most phones being supported.
I may wish that more devices met the requirements of GrapheneOS, because I like GrapheneOS and their requirements, but I find it very weird to with GrapheneOS changed their core vision. What makes GrapheneOS is those requirements.