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On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 01 May 2013 10:27:27 -0700 |
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> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > It's necessary, and the way to convince developers is to stop |
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>> > providing a nasty hack as a not-really-working alternative. |
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>> As downstream packagers, do we or can we really expect to have that |
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>> much influence of upstream developers? If the big binary distros are |
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>> willing to package these things without complaints, then how likely |
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>> is it that upstream developers will change their ways? |
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> |
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> Big binary distros already deal with this problem... |
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Well, if you only support one version of every library and change them |
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all in lockstep a few times a year, then this becomes a complete |
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non-issue. However, if you're going to do that then a big part of the |
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value that Gentoo creates is lost. |
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Honestly, this seems a bit like hurting our users so that developers |
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feel sorry for them and jump through hoops. We might as well threaten |
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to kill kittens anytime the bug wrangler list goes over a certain |
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threshold, or a GLSA stays open too long. |
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Sure, I'd prefer a perfect world to a better world, but I'm not going |
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to get a perfect world, so I'd prefer a better world to the one I live |
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in today. |
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Rich |
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