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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:02:36
Message-Id: 0ec1a891bcba8e1ca780d585c2134d0b7e4100ea.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Do (old-ish) Portage QA checks comprise policy? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 10:53 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > In this case, whether or not this is "policy" is beside the point. No
3 > one else wants to remove this check because it's useful and prevents
4 > developers from accidentally dumping garbage onto users' (often limited)
5 > root filesystems. Some people don't like to do their jobs, though, and
6 > for those developers it's a lot easier to delete the check and make
7 > things worse for everybody than it would be to package software
8 > correctly. Just Say No. That's what QA is for. But again, it would be
9 > easier to veto these obviously-stupid things if they've been documented.
10
11 I did say no. William claims it doesn't matter.
12
13 I did request a QA vote to confirm it. William demands that I close it
14 [1].
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16 [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/f655c94bacdb01c3cafcc39a7bf1af93
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18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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