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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 19:57:07 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > Sounds like a perfect way to break lots and lots of systems. Those |
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> | > policies are mostly there for good reason. |
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> | You want to apply policies on overlays? Well no - sorry, overlays are |
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> | none of QA's or any other policy business. They are overlays, not |
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> | official tree. If user installs ebuilds from overlay and breaks his |
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> | system, then well - not a Gentoo problem. Why should any policies |
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> | apply? |
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> It is a Gentoo problem, because Gentoo gets innundated with bogus bug |
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> reports when users screw up their systems in weird ways and don't |
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> realise the cause. |
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We get innundated with tons of bogus bug reports every day, overlays or |
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not - see the number of invalid/duplicate bugs flowing every days. We |
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got a couple of bugs in last two a three days basically stating "ZOMG, |
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glibc downgrade broke my system, t3h Gentoo bug!!11!!" - so what? They |
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get marked as invalid, live goes on. This argument really doesn't stand. |
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As this should be a separate thread, just one reason or example - I'm |
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really uncomfortable e.g. w/ QA intervening in overlays stuff, |
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considering the current way QA is being done in Gentoo... Current |
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non-interactivity policy has clearly influenced multiple ebuilds in |
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portage to the extent that forced me to read the ebuilds very carefully |
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multiple times to be sure what the outcome will be with my particular |
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USE flags. This is a bad thing (TM) for me and I clearly oppose to |
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having such stuff forced in overlays. I could see a place for QA |
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volunteers in this overlay stuff, but that would require a fundamentally |
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different approach from what QA takes now. (If you wish to discuss this |
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further, move it to a separate thread, please). |
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Common sense always applies, but generally - overlays are not a place |
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for bureaucracy... |
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Best regards, |
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Jakub Moc |
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mailto:jakub@g.o |
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