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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:52:37
Message-Id: 462E5F58.3080402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [ANN] Multiple version suffixes illegal in gentoo-x86 by Stephen Bennett
1 Stephen Bennett wrote:
2 > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:16:38 -0400
3 > Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> So apparently as little as 1 council member can make a decision and it
7 >> be binding unless appealed to the entire council at the next meeting.
8 >>
9 >
10 > There were three council members who happened to be around at the time,
11 > and those three agreed unanimously. That seems reasonable to me for an
12 > interim decision.
13 >
14 Is it that serious of an issue that it needed to be done as such and
15 could not wait for a regular council meeting?
16
17 Granted I understand it's important for you paludis users since paludis
18 doesn't support that.
19 But I'm talking about real Gentoo users that use Portage.
20
21 I think we are setting a VERY dangerous precedent by allowing a subset
22 of council members to make decisions as a whole if they decide to make a
23 decision outside of a normal session.
24
25 Who were the 3?
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