ACL removal day?!

[Steve Dickson]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:17 -0500, Jima wrote:
>>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> I invite everyone else who never felt the need for ACL's to join me, 
>>>> and hereby declare this day ACL removal day.
>>>   Hmm, good idea.  You're also raising awareness; I hadn't even 
>>> noticed that my two newest packages *had* pkg.acl files, which I'm 
>>> now remedying.
>>
>> Suggestion for FESCO: new packages must explicitly request an ACL.
> 
> I would go further. Even for existing packages, package maintainers must 
> specify good reasons for retaining ACL's and that must be documented 
> explicitly in some prominent place.
Does this include all packages like core packages like the kernel, setup
and such? Things that are crucial to the stability of the system?

steved.