On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@...> wrote:
> 2) That won't necessarily stop the bugs from rolling in. Some devs may
> get tired of live pkg bugs and package.mask it, thus putting up a double-
> barrier to the live ebuild. If users jump BOTH barriers and fall over
> the ledge, well... maybe they /need/ that Darwin Award! =:^]
>
We had something interesting happen with policykit. It was masked for
a very long time, and so all users of policykit had
"sys-auth/policykit" in p.unmask. Then it was unmasked, but of course
who bothers cleaning up their local configuration as long as it works?
Months later, policykit-0.92 was added (masked) which was ABI, API,
UI, everything incompatible. Naturally portage on said users' boxes
was very happy to see such an update on the system and it very
promptly upgraded policykit.
And of course it completely hosed everything on top of X.
We received bug reports for this a *long* time after adding it. After
getting sick of duping, and since the new ebuild was broken in a few
ways too (and we had decided to rename policykit-0.92 it to
sys-auth/polkit), we finally decided to remove it.
Lesson to be learnt: users are morons with short attention spans[1].
But we cannot ignore that fact.
1. Of course, we ourselves come under the definition of "users" too.. ;)
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~Nirbheek Chauhan
Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team
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