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From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 19:10:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c5d738a-04f7-94a7-d2ed-1983743dcef6@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP40jGbKE81JkR17WTc1JTqcwz3nGEsC6r+ro=3Os4digkg@mail.gmail.com>


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On 2021-01-08 18:06, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> I disagree with your premise: I argue that the eclass is not "broken",
> and the code works as designed. You just don't like aspects of its
> design.

Several people, not just me... *users*, other devs like robbat2 and 
antarus, all with experience in maintaining multiple systems not just as 
a hobby, have expressed that the current design has a flaw.

I got feedback from other devs representing a large group in Gentoo and 
they all agree on the problem. They haven't spoken up yet because they 
don't care because the way how they use Gentoo is stateless.

So why the hell is it acceptable for a small group (you and mgorny, 
Michael told me already last year that he will be fine with an opt-in 
change and I assume his opinion hasn't changed) to cause problems for 
another group just because you don't want to acknowledge the problem?

Even soap, not sure if he has spoken for himself or as QA lead, has 
acknowledged in this thread that we need a mechanism to disable this 
behavior.

Is it really not possible to solve this technical problem? Do we have to 
escalate and need a vote or something to replace entire GLEP 81 with 
something new just because a group believes there is no flaw and 
everyone else having problems are doing things wrong so this group is 
rejecting any attempts to address the problem?


-- 
Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-04  1:35 [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] acct-user.eclass: don't modify existing user by default Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  2:41 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  3:17   ` Alec Warner
2021-01-04  3:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 14:46   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 15:24     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 15:55       ` David Seifert
2021-01-04 16:18         ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:28           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:30             ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:34               ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:38                 ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:50                   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:56                     ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:54                 ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04  7:32 ` Robin H. Johnson
2021-01-04 16:45   ` [gentoo-dev] " James Cloos
2021-01-04 18:07     ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:20       ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 18:38         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:23       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 18:27         ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-01-04 18:32           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04  9:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2021-01-04 14:05   ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-04 16:10   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-04 16:14     ` Michał Górny
2021-01-04 16:20       ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:11       ` Fabian Groffen
2021-01-08 18:14         ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 18:23           ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 18:32             ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 15:48 ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:03   ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 16:29     ` Thomas Deutschmann
2021-01-08 16:50       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:06       ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 18:10         ` Thomas Deutschmann [this message]
2021-01-08 18:31           ` Michał Górny
2021-01-08 19:15             ` Mike Gilbert
2021-01-08 17:16       ` Michał Górny

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