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Hi Jakub, |
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Jakub Moc schrieb: |
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| 28.2.2006, 16:29:07, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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|>>When and where has been the following change discussed and who |
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|>>approved that? |
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|>>http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml?r1=1.25&r2=1.26&root=gentoo |
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|>According to my recollection, it was discussed between members of QA |
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|>and devrel. According to the CVS logs, it was committed by a member of |
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|>devrel, at QA's request. You can't pass it off as a QA project |
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|>conspiracy, since they didn't make the change. |
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| I'm sorry, but discussing such stuff affecting pretty much everyone who |
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| writes ebuilds among a couple of people simply isn't enough to make this a |
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| policy. And then silently applying this and starting to scream "QA |
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| violation, look, what a nasty QA violation!!!" is plain ridiculous. |
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Well, it was common sense before. Especially because it was part of the |
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devmanual. I know, the next argument will be: The devmanual is not |
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official. However, this particular text had been part of the devmanual |
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for a long time. Many devs read it and afaict nobody objected against it |
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while it was 'unofficial'. In my opinion, there was enough time to raise |
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a hand and yell: 'I don't like it'. |
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Beside this, I'd like to support the non-interactive mode on the base of |
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efficiency: It is better to install a package with a default and sane |
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set of USE flags instead of breaking the whole update process. |
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However, this incident should be logged by portage. |
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| Punting every single piece of broken sh*t from the tree requires notifying |
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| everyone on -dev ml and allowing a period of time before it's actually |
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done, |
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| so silently changing/stating policies is a very broken practice. |
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Nobody changed anything. It was written down before in the devmanual and |
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then incorporated into the developer handbook. |
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If you don't agree with the contents, why didn't you raise your |
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opposition earlier? |
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If you agree with the contents, please ask yourself if the current |
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discussion is necessary. |
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I'm looking forward to your answers on the last 2 points. |
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Danny |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project |
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