On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Merely saying if we had some documentation snippet, or an end-quiz > question for this, QA could more easily/faster revoke access if someone > were to do this intentionally in tree. This could be minor motivation > for me to write such snippet, but it's definately not near top on my TODO.
I think that something that is worth an official policy is whether in fact "<" or "=" dependencies are acceptable, or in general when they are acceptable. That isn't to say that we have to enumerate all possibilities, but there should be guidelines. I don't think there really is a clear consensus on this. It is definitely a can of worms and I don't think black-and-white is the right approach to take. While slotting libraries is often an option, that gets a lot messier when you're talking about things like header files. Rich
