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On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 9:55 PM Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 8/10/2020 11:22, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 12:00:44AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote: |
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> >> If eudev is not broken, then why your proposed fix? |
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> > bitrot and bus factor. |
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> Examples? |
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The sole maintainer of eudev is going to suddenly disappear before |
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getting a chance to tell anybody about the horrible security issue |
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they discovered earlier that day. |
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> You meant to say "has yet to come true". |
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>.... |
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> Elsewise, as long as that door remains open, then future tense is |
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> the correct tense. |
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Note that the disappearance of the sole maintainer of eudev has yet to |
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happen, but we absolutely need to be taking steps today because |
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everybody knows it will happen. After all, it COULD happen, and so as |
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long as that door remains open the future tense is the correct tense. |
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:) |
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I find it amusing that everybody is still trembling in fear that |
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Lennart is going to take their shell scripts away from them in the |
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middle of the night. But it isn't like anybody needs to touch that |
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cruft if they don't want to just because they're working on Gentoo, so |
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whatever rocks your boat. |
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Really though I'd just stick with "ain't broke don't fix it" as there |
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really is no reason to get into paranoid FUD. |
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Rich |
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