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From: Joonas Niilola <juippis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/5] verify-sig.eclass: New eclass to verify OpenPGP sigs
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2020 14:35:31
Message-Id: ff62d73d-9b57-79be-26f3-c1a271530872@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/5] verify-sig.eclass: New eclass to verify OpenPGP sigs by Thomas Deutschmann
1 On 10/11/20 4:40 PM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 > First of all, calm down. You are reading too much into this. Just
5 > revert your own logic: You obviously like your idea, worked on this
6 > and pushed it to repository. Don't you see that anyone could ask the
7 > same? Who are you? Why do believe that you can force something like
8 > that down to everyone's system? That feature got enabled in developers
9 > profiles by default, it will blow up distfiles with useless data (a
10 > view you can have when you share my concerns and don't see any
11 > problems with current Manifest system; For example we banned stuff in
12 > $FILESDIR before and asked developers to move them to d.g.o when >25kb
13 > in total arguing that large distfile is affecting *any* user... I am
14 > not comparing this 1:1 but to repeat your question: Who are you that
15 > you can decide to force something similar down to everyone).
16 >
17 >
18 > Sure, if I am the only having that opinion and most people see a value
19 > in this and disagree with me...
20 >
21 >
22 I vote for disabling that USE flag in developer profile. There are more
23 than 1 person using it not yet buying or understanding this "draft". I
24 also believe such a profile flag change should be discussed first.
25
26 -- juippis

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