Previously john@dhh.gt.org wrote: > Mine allows her to refer to your list of known restrictions and then make > up her own mind. The number of restricted packages is always going to be > small, and the maintainers of those packages the experts on restrictions. To give an example why this is a bad idea and Raul's extra layer is much better: see a country Bogomania suddenly decides that any program using crypto is illegal. Using your scheme *every* packages that does something crypto-related has to be reuploaded with a new tag to say that it may not be used in Bogomania. Using Raul's scheme you would only have to modify 1 item in a list. > That requires a central authority to create and maintain a database of all > known restriction types and countries. A single screw-up and it hoses all > restricted packages. I dislike central authorities. Screw up a single Packages file on master and all mirrors are hosed. We need central bookkeeping for some things, you can't avoid that. > A relatively rare event, I think, and one that a restricted package > maintainer is likely to become aware of as soon as anyone else. Do you really think that if a small country with 2000 inhabitants would change it law the maintainer will know/hear about it? Get real. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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