Re: /var/lib, /var/mail
On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 05:28:00AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> I'd like to assume some common sense on the part of developers.
Specifications (and that's what Policy is) should never assume anything
it doesn't have to assume - too many things can go wrong (like, people
having different definitions for "common sense").
> I don't want to go and add cruft to the policy that says essentially "This
> is policy but you shouldn't go out and reupload all of your packages so
> they do things the new way just because there's a new policy."
I update many of my packages frequently, and I usually upgrade to latest
Policy in the process. If I have nothing else to do, I might even update
them just for the policy change ;-)
I will formally object to any proposal which intends to introduce policy
that should not be followed.
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(Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)
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