On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 9:13 AM orbea wrote:
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> Protecting users from themselves can be a misfeature. Its better to
> educate and then let them freely choose than to play as their nanny.
>
TL;DR - it makes sense to unconditionally install prebuilt manpages,
but not to require pulling in dependen
Protecting users from themselves can be a misfeature. Its better to
educate and then let them freely choose than to play as their nanny.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 19:25:22 +0200
Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:33:20AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 13:25 +020
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 11:33:20AM -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 13:25 +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> > In this case, the expectation to compile manpages does not come free
> > of cost and protects noone. By the above formulation, the cost
> > "should" not come in the form of
On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 13:25 +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
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> In this case, the expectation to compile manpages does not come free
> of cost and protects noone. By the above formulation, the cost
> "should" not come in the form of additional (heavy! dev-python/sphinx
> and deps are 75M) dependencies,
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 01:25:19PM +0200, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> I would like to continue https://bugs.gentoo.org/890589 here and also
> increase the audience. The original policy was voted upon by 6 seniors and
> approved with no documented opposition or discussion. I think it's possible
> that
I would like to continue https://bugs.gentoo.org/890589 here and also increase
the audience. The original policy was voted upon by 6 seniors and approved with
no documented opposition or discussion. I think it's possible that it went
under the radar a bit. It says:
> Packages must not disable i
