On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 07:21:55PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > I parse "The clean target may need to be invoked as root if binary has > been invoked..." as:
You're trying too hard to parse it. This is not some silly game to see what sort of frivolous bug reports we can file today. The purpose of policy is to help us make a better system. Try worrying about things that matter. > The only other way that I see to read that section of policy is to read > it as a simple reminder to people building packages, in which case it > should be either removed or changed to a footnote. You're probably right here; at the least, it should be edited to be more clear. Perhaps: "the clean target may need to be invoked as root (in case binary has been invoked)". But policy is not perfect, nor do we claim it is; there's a lot of sections (especially stuff that got imported from the old developers-reference) that needs to be cleaned up or dropped. It's not our top priority to do this because we have other priorities, and, for the most part, people have common sense. So, the next time you see something that is working fine, and nobody else is complaining about it, and you think it *might* be a violation of the precise letter of policy, please ASK FIRST before filing a possibly-frivolous bug report. cheers -- Chris Waters | Pneumonoultra- osis is too long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | microscopicsilico- to fit into a single or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | volcaniconi- standalone haiku
