On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:29:12 -0700
Chip Parker <infowolfe@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you were building a house, and the blueprints had been signed off
> on calling for 1 meter high doors, but the builder had built in 2
> meter high doors, would you then go back to the builder and require
> him to do something that makes those doors unusable for the vast
> majority of people entering the house?

Package managers can implement whatever extra bells and whistles they like,
but they still have to follow the spec.  Your metaphor is flawed in that
you're talking about a single house here.  If it doesn't match the plan you
do an as-built and file a deviation with the registrar.  The situation here
is more like if you build a hundred houses to code, and then one above code,
and then change code to match the one house and bulldoze the rest for not
meeting minimal requirements.  You're punishing anyone who implements a
package manager to spec if you keep changing the spec in incompatible ways.


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