On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 10:58:47AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 06/03/11 at 10:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le dimanche 06 mars 2011 à 10:10 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : 
> > > I prefer the situation where we empower users to make the switch if they
> > > decide to, to the situation where we arbitrarily decide that users
> > > should use Ruby 1.8 with no ability to change this (and get bug reports
> > > for that). Note that for the upstream Ruby developers, the stable branch
> > > is 1.9, not 1.8.
> > 
> > You are just going to empower users to shoot themselves in the foot.
> 
> What if users want the ability to shoot themselves in the foot?

They already have, with dpkg-divert. Why add another one?

Mike


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