From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
To: Gentoo Dev <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 12:06:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ0EP40jGbKE81JkR17WTc1JTqcwz3nGEsC6r+ro=3Os4digkg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e21aa3ab-51ac-52d8-290e-b90d38173421@gentoo.org>
On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:29 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
> This is a technical mailing list. Currently, acct-* stuff is breaking
> stuff. Nobody has challenged this yet.
>
> Now I proposed a way how to unbreak stuff.
>
> Please tell me why we should keep broken stuff for non-technical reason
> and cause harm for those who are affected?
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.
If you want to change the design, you need buy-in from the maintainer,
or you need to override him.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-08 17:07 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 [this message]
2021-01-08 18:10 ` Thomas Deutschmann
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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