On Mar 12, 2013, at 1:25 AM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:57 PM, PJ Eby <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Lennart Regebro <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So, we should not remove the links for external packages until >>> somebody traverses those links? But as soon as somebody asks for those >>> links, we should remove them? In fact before we give them the link? >> >> I'm saying that if someone objects to the presence of links they >> don't actually use, they are speaking nonsense. Might as well ask to >> ban all packages from PyPI that they don't personally like -- it's the >> same request. Nobody is forcing you to depend on packages that don't >> host on PyPI, so there is no point to the censorship. >> >> If you don't use the links, you can't argue that their presence is >> causing you harm. > > Externally hosted files are a real world actual problem. We can only > solve it by not having externally hosted files. This discussion has > since a long time gone past reason into pure stop energy. I'm not > wasting more energy on it. > > //Lennart > Likewise. I'd like to see a pull requests cleaning things up in a reasonable way we can discuss with Richard at pycon _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
