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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:00:25
Message-Id: 20170323190000.6f8a34bf@snowblower
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] sys-devel/autoconf: Convert from eblits into an eclass, #586424 by Alexis Ballier
1 On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:52:13 +0100
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Do you think really think it's fine for maintainer to:
4 > >
5 > > 1. go against best practices, principle of least surprise and
6 > > basically make it harder for anyone else to touch the ebuild (-> aim
7 > > for bus factor of 1 and/or making himself indispensable)?
8 >
9 > This is very (too) subjective.
10
11 It's really not. eblits are the result of vapier being vapier, and just
12 shoving stuff into the tree without review rather than doing things
13 properly. This stuff matters: Gentoo needs to be actively improving the
14 quality of the tree so that progress can be made, not fighting a losing
15 battle to stop it from getting even worse.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh