Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

>>     d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy
>>        (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this
>>        would mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package
>>        name, but the rest of Portage would accept it.

> Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and
> JavaScript, where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of
> different browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting
> lax input just leads to lax input being provided...

Providing lax input is not at all Postel's Law, but the opposite of it.

In our case, strict input would be enforced with repoman.

Ulrich