On 02. 04. 20 20:07, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
This is a great example of the Nirvana Fallacy. Essentially, you are arguing that improvements for one group is not acceptable unless it improves things for every other group too.
(I will answer the entire e-mail hopefully later today, but I could not resist to make myself more clear on this point now.)
I am not in any way saying that improvements for one group is not acceptable unless it improves things for every other group too.
I am saying that we should not make changes that have unknown (arguably negative) impact on any other group.
An example: When we had a proposal for dynamic BuildRequires, we added them to rawhide only. Obviously, the group of packagers who maintain single-spec and %if conditionals cannot benefit from that. And that is completely fine. They were not impacted in any way, they just could not benefit from the new stuff unless they change their packaging style. If they continue to use their current style, they are not impacted in any way. Nobody said: "Dynamic BuildRequires are the only way we handle DynamicBuildrequires and if that doesn't work for you, we'll send you a Pull Request."
There is a big difference between saying: "all groups should benefit from this" and saying: "no group should be negatively impacted by this".
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