Package Maintainers Flags policy
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon May 18 17:54:53 UTC 2009
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Denis Leroy wrote:
> On 05/18/2009 07:32 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> And FYI, the current policy doesn't ban flags entirely, but they have to
>>> be
>> in a -flags package which is not installed by default
>
> That's about the same as banning them. What percentage of users do you think
> will install them, let alone be aware they exist ? I understand the reasoning
> behind this policy, but overall this seems like a gross overreaction. We have
> a vast international community here, why not let this community write up a
> black-list of sensitive flags to avoid, rather than ban'em all ?
>
B/c the members from Ihaterandomstan and the folks from randomstan will
never come to consensus short of involving the UN or possibly Jimmy
Carter.
-sv
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