Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

[Michał Górny]

On pon, 2017-04-10 at 15:21 +0200, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:37 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > It is always nice when a person who:
>
> Please stop the sarcasm. While I understand the reaction, the idea in
> itself does not seem totally crazy to me, and it seems useful to have
> a discussion on its merits.
>
> At the same time, I would not consider it far-fetched to say that you
> proposed significant changes to handling of manifest hashes, without
> deep knowledge of the security aspects of the hashing algorithms up
> for discussion.

I'm not sure if you're trying to insult me or just make a random point.
Even letting that pass by, I find quite a difference between not having
a 'deep knowledge' of something, and not having a 'basic knowledge'.

> This is sometimes how we learn. If you feel the thread
> wastes time, you can just ignore it (as you seem to have done with the
> manifest hashes thread after a few critical responses, somewhat to my
> disappointment).

Ignoring threads on thread that is mostly abandoned to terribly low
level of posts frequently results in people putting their terrible ideas
without even bothering to wait for a competent reply.

As for that Manifest thread, I didn't notice any post that would request
any reply. As far as I can see, it was mostly hijacked into 'why we
still don't have proper verification, and why asking questions about it
does not make it happen?!'

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Best regards,
Michał Górny