On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 05:36:03PM -0400, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: > On Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:14:56 AM EDT William Hubbs wrote: I have posted about this subject before, and I'll go and dust off the proposal with the last changes added, when I have time soon hopefully.
> > I am also in favor of the metadata approach. > The only downfall is you end up with lots of package/developer specific > policies which may become complex and a nuisance. It is likely better to have > more of a global policy. Sure, global policies help (as a sane default), but being able to tell people the most common cases is important: 1. Yes, touch it, but please ask me (DEFAULT, including timeout value) 2. Yes, go ahead and touch this package, and don't ask me 3. danger will robinson! this is fragile! I'm going to set #2 on the great majority of the 200+ packages that I directly maintain. Make it easy to open a package up to MORE changes, and hard to restrict. -- Robin Hugh Johnson Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer E-Mail : robb...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136
