On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Mark Brown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 09:22:09PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > And thanks to this stupid MUST thing in policy everyone's wasting their > > time trying to figure out how to force people to do things, instead of > > making sure that there's absolutely no reason why they wouldn't want to. > > Trouble is, when the maintainer really is being wierd there's not much > you can do about it so people wind up wanting to find a big stick to use > to try to get through to them. Assuming people are going to do the > sensible thing doesn't always work.
Inasmuch as that is true, we're doomed anyway, policy or no policy. Britton