Re: [gentoo-dev] metadata.xml: <changepolicies>

[Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gentoo.org>]

On Qui, 2010-02-25 at 15:41 +0200, Markos Chandras wrote:
> On Thursday 25 February 2010 08:22:17 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Robin H Johnson wrote:
> > > Metadata.xml should allow use of a <changepolicies> element. Within
> > > the element, package maintainers should be able to describe how
> > > non-maintainer changes to the package are handled.
> > 
> > Could we allow this element in the category metadata files, too?
> > Its value there would be the default for the category, with the
> > possibility to override it for individual packages.
> > 
> > Ulrich
> How are you so sure that a general "rule" can apply to a whole category? E.g. 
> the x11-misc/ one. Which rule for non-maintainer changes are you going to 
> apply since every single developer is maintaining a x11-misc application? Same 
> for app-misc etc.

I'm speaking from the GPE herd which have some gpe- categories. IMHO,
this won't be useful to us. I also think it adds unnecessary development
overhead and sounds difficult to maintain in categories with lots of
packages.
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