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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 05:29:22 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> |
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> | Donnie already stated he'd take a patch, so throw the patch his |
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> | direction if you want things changed. |
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> "If you don't want it to be broken, fix it yourself" is hardly a viable |
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> QA policy... |
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No, but you are an ex-dev so it hardly counts as asking a newbie to do it. |
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As for your other point: |
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> | Ciaran: does the group stuff Donnie mentioned above fix this? |
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> No. That's a massive abuse of groups. If people wanted to just accept |
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> any licence necessary to install a particular package, they'd disable |
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> licence filtering. The purpose of groups is to allow people to quickly |
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> select licences that have been approved by various organisations that |
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> have lawyers checking this kind of thing. |
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Is there any consensus on that? |
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