On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Well, that package maintainers are called developers on Gentoo isn't > helping the interpretation here; regardless of how one defines those, > both maintainers and PM implementers have to be taken into account here. > > From quick thoughts the latter are a bit more affected than the former, > but perhaps Patrick can highlight what he sees as a burden.
You would think, but the reason I raised the question was that historically every time this has come up the package manager maintainers usually chime in and say that they don't consider it a problem. I want to do whatever I can to make them happy since we are so desperately in need of more of them, but... Rich