On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Michael Orlitzky <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/03/2017 02:57 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> It's in the devmanual, which imposes gentoo-specific policy on top of PMS. >> > > It would be nice if that were true, but there's a lot of junk and/or > personal preference documented in the devmanual, and a lot of > actual-policy that's still missing because it can't get past review. > This looks like it was tacked on for fun as part of the devrel handbook > merger: > > https://github.com/gentoo/devmanual.gentoo.org/commit/c97aec7f7e236bc917067763916530bfa05d6e31 > > (The old handbook never mentioned variables, from what I can see.) >
The developer handbook was also a "policy" manual of sorts when it existed. I don't know where you got the idea that developers are free to ignore the devmanual when it suits them. You might get away with it if QA doesn't notice I guess.
