2006/9/6, Jason Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I think specific problems reported to the bug tracker would help the
> developers.  A wholesale scanning of all packages won't really help
> cause none of the developers will want to sift through it and figure
> out what problems are problems and what aren't...

Yeah, you're right. Today I had two exams. On Friday I'll have
another. And so on for a couple of weeks. It's the best I can do, now,
it's not very much, but still better than being kicked in your face,
isn't it? ;-)

> It's true, we don't have any room for metadata like that right now.
> Though, it could be added.  My fear is that they would be abused and
> the assumptions wouldn't be checked ie. if a package *did* depend on
> gcc that next version, but the developer told it to ignore that
> message, how would they even know to check?

Right, this is the point. You can fully trust your developers but...
well, shit happens :), that's why I don't like it.
It comes to my mind the new Windows Vista. It's alway been unsecure
and easy to use. Now it seems it'll be a little more secure, but to
the point of being incredibly annoying. Inverse path, same problem.


bardo

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