On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:21:39AM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Patrice Dumas wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:37:13PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > >> Well, if you handwave packaging guidelines conformance away, > > > > It is not the point. Exceptions can be made when the cost is high and > > the benefit is low. > > I think making exceptions is a good thing. Our Guidelines should be > flexible enough to make exceptions when necessary. But setting up the > analysis of when to make exceptions as "cost is high and benefit is low" > is doomed to failure. There's a cost with any changes we make to how a I am not saying that this should always be a good reason, I think that, in this precise case, it is. I am against violation of the guidelines, I am for a packaging quality as high as possible. But sometimes compromises has to be done. Or somebody has to step up to do the work. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
