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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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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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