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On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:19:13 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> Actually, there's also: |
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> d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy |
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> (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this would |
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> mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package name, but the |
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> rest of Portage would accept it. |
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Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and JavaScript, |
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where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of different |
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browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting lax input |
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just leads to lax input being provided... |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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