On 10/13/2009 09:47 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:37:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:The question itself, in its starkest form, is simple.Under what circumstances, if any, is it considered acceptable for a package which is installed as a dependency by the upgrade of another package to silently break the system?That sounds like something that's so blindingly obviously a bad idea for any package that you'd hope it doesn't need to be in policy?
That's what I'd have thought, but I've run across a package which does
seem to do this, and the maintainer seems to consider it an acceptable
situation. Before trying to argue too much about that, I wanted to
confirm that it was in fact 'officially' considered unacceptable. (In
fact I'd prefer to exhaust reasonable means of resolving the problem
first, if at all possible - I don't like getting into arguments.)
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