* Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: revisiting our stabilization policy
@ 2014-01-15 1:23 99% ` Tom Wijsman
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From: Tom Wijsman @ 2014-01-15 1:23 UTC (permalink / raw
To: mjo; +Cc: gentoo-dev
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:11:24 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 01/14/2014 08:08 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> >
> > This is under the assumption that the user knows of the state of the
> > stabilization worsening; if the user is unaware of that change, the
> > "could have done anyway" might be less common and first something
> > bad would need to happen before they realize the worsened
> > stabilization.
> >
>
> If I don't realize it, it ain't broke.
So, you're going to wait for corruption, a security breach or something
along those lines to happen first?
Corruption is what stabilization of consistent dependencies can
prevent, rather than relying on a >=... dependency too much. Security
is what prevents security bugs from remaining present. And so on...
If you don't realize it, it ain't fixed.
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