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On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: |
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I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the |
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proposal with the last changes added, when I have time soon hopefully. |
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> > I am also in favor of the metadata approach. |
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> The only downfall is you end up with lots of package/developer specific |
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> policies which may become complex and a nuisance. It is likely better to have |
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> more of a global policy. |
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Sure, global policies help (as a sane default), but being able to tell |
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people the most common cases is important: |
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1. Yes, touch it, but please ask me (DEFAULT, including timeout value) |
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2. Yes, go ahead and touch this package, and don't ask me |
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3. danger will robinson! this is fragile! |
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I'm going to set #2 on the great majority of the 200+ packages that I |
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directly maintain. |
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Make it easy to open a package up to MORE changes, and hard to restrict. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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