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From: Maxim Kammerer <mk@×××.su>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:20:17
Message-Id: CAHsXYDCGrrBMjgzFC=nwsJ+hSysrhFN7xkMKJTaND851vyfFWg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: Debian patching KDE to use /etc for configuration (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: call for testers: udev predictable network interface names) by Kevin Chadwick
1 On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > You could try to argue that many eyes will look at a central piece of
3 > code but in fact less implementations will likely mean less eyes and
4 > just assumption that a guy who got JS through as a config language has
5 > everything covered.
6
7 Still can't wrap my mind around that. A call into a multi-MB generic
8 language library (usually with JIT as well) on every PolKit action —
9 right, a good idea. I kind of liked PolKit before that change.
10
11 This is a major problem, there are other questionable choices that
12 raise the question whether developers are familiar with how things are
13 done on Unix:
14 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58787
15
16 > Sudo even supports regex!
17
18 Only glob patterns, and it's not too good at that.
19 http://www.sudo.ws/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=500
20
21 --
22 Maxim Kammerer
23 Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte

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