From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:51:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120929165131.60d8a6af@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20579.61409.451891.521881@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 08:19:13 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Actually, there's also:
> d) Require a) for Package managers and b) by tree policy
> (Postel's Law, brought up by mgorny). Practically, this would
> mean that repoman would reject "foo-1" as package name, but the
> rest of Portage would accept it.
Postel's Law is what lead to the current state of HTML and JavaScript,
where everything has to be tested carefully on dozens of different
browser versions and littered with workarounds. Accepting lax input
just leads to lax input being provided...
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-29 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-25 9:24 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 09-10-2012 Fabian Groffen
2012-09-25 9:59 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27 6:19 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-27 22:13 ` Brian Harring
2012-09-28 0:14 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-28 12:12 ` Brian Harring
2012-10-03 5:04 ` Donnie Berkholz
2012-10-03 6:44 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-03 6:56 ` Matt Turner
2012-10-03 8:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-29 15:51 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2012-09-29 16:04 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-09-29 16:10 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-09-25 19:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-02 11:30 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-03 17:18 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-04 18:32 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05 6:28 ` Fabian Groffen
2012-10-05 6:41 ` Pacho Ramos
2012-10-05 6:43 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-10-05 8:46 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-10-05 10:31 ` Rich Freeman
2012-10-05 14:51 ` Jeff Horelick
2012-10-05 17:35 ` Pacho Ramos
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