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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 08/03/2017 02:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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>> It's in the devmanual, which imposes gentoo-specific policy on top of PMS. |
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> It would be nice if that were true, but there's a lot of junk and/or |
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> personal preference documented in the devmanual, and a lot of |
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> actual-policy that's still missing because it can't get past review. |
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> This looks like it was tacked on for fun as part of the devrel handbook |
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> merger: |
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> https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/commit/c97aec7f7e236bc917067763916530bfa05d6e31 |
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> (The old handbook never mentioned variables, from what I can see.) |
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The developer handbook was also a "policy" manual of sorts when it existed. |
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I don't know where you got the idea that developers are free to ignore |
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the devmanual when it suits them. You might get away with it if QA |
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doesn't notice I guess. |
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