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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list