On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:52:13 +0100 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Do you think really think it's fine for maintainer to: > > > > 1. go against best practices, principle of least surprise and > > basically make it harder for anyone else to touch the ebuild (-> aim > > for bus factor of 1 and/or making himself indispensable)? > > This is very (too) subjective.
It's really not. eblits are the result of vapier being vapier, and just shoving stuff into the tree without review rather than doing things properly. This stuff matters: Gentoo needs to be actively improving the quality of the tree so that progress can be made, not fighting a losing battle to stop it from getting even worse. -- Ciaran McCreesh