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>>>>> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018, Andrey Utkin wrote: |
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> It seems to me this will grow huge, and be the source of annoyance for |
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> users. |
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IIUC the file has a specific purpose, namely to solve the copyright |
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attribution problem. So only those entities who would otherwise add |
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themselves to ebuild headers must be listed there. |
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> There's a plausible opinion that today's Unixes will stay around |
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> forever: |
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> https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/DurableCurrentUnixes |
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> And obviously Gentoo is the best flavour of them, so... |
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> Are there any long-lived community FOSS projects maintaining such |
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> file? |
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GNU Emacs: |
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http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/AUTHORS |
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They add everyone who has contributed, and after 33 years the file |
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has grown to 170 kB, which I think is still acceptable. We have some |
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Manifest files that are much larger. |
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So I don't think we would run into problems anytime soon, even if we |
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added everybody (which we shouldn't, IMHO). |
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Ulrich |