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