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