On Monday 27 February 2006 11:47, Lance Albertson wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:53:20 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > | The maintainer should be the absolute authority over his/her packages,
> > | and only the council should be able to overrule maintainer decisions
> > | in the case of disagreement between the maintainer and anybody else.
> >
> > So if the maintainer sticks SANDBOX_DISABLE="1" rm -fr / in global scope
> > and refuses to move it, QA will have to get council approval to fix it?
>
> Use some common sense when showing an example please. We all know that
> something that stupid needs to be delt with quickly.

we've had at least one ebuild do stuff in /tmp in global scope ... of course 
that was a mistake the dev felt really bad about and it was fixed once 
noticed, so not sure this is an appropriate example ;)
-mike
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