Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Martin Vaeth <va...@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> napisa=C5=82(a): > > And what does quickly removing used feature gain us in terms of > usability?
We are talking about changing a detail of a feature which just has proven that it is causes dependency chaos due to a side effect of that detail which probably nobody had thought of when it was introduced. Instead of fixing that detail which would need a rewording of PMS and a change in 2-3 package managers, you think it is better to keep the issue ... the reason being just bureaucracy. > Furthermore, some people think that issues are to be fixed. Yeah, spend years to look for the theoretically best matching solution instead of making things working. Like Hurd. Gentoo usually had the courage to try things (like multiarch support); and if they turned out to be bad to modify/withdraw them (like USE-flags triggered by installed packages). Now a bureaucracy has taken over which forbids this? > we may as well remove support for mixing stable > and unstable packages. In fact, this will more likely fix a few more > bugs! Yes, it will fix bug reports of most users, since they are moving then to another distro. > And something small at the end: if your hand hurts (it's the issue), > do you 'fix' the pain or do you cut the hand off? I will fix the pain instead of following some paper where it is written that I must not touch my hand with a knife or whatever. And also, I would not start to build a better hand which can eventually replace my older one without the pain, as soon as the older one has died off.
