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On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:04:59 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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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 |
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> >> would mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package |
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> >> name, but the rest of Portage would accept it. |
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> > Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and |
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> > JavaScript, where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of |
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> > different browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting |
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> > lax input just leads to lax input being provided... |
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> Providing lax input is not at all Postel's Law, but the opposite of |
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> it. |
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But as you can see from HTML, and all the stuff Portage accepts |
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currently, and from countless other examples, the only way to prevent |
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bad input from being provided is to reject it. Following one half of |
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Postel's law just leads to the other half being violated. |
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> In our case, strict input would be enforced with repoman. |
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Repoman can't parse bash code. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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