On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:25:25PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:08:57PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > The alternative, IMO, is the slightly more heavyweight trusted > > > maintainer model. > > > > I believe a mixed model is more appropriate. > > > > In short, I'm just going to have to disagree with you on requiring > > things to be buildable to be contributable. > > Let users decide whether they want to install stuff from /contrib that > has no source to go with it (and/or which has not been rebuilt by > others).
Or which has even been rebuilt and signed by others. Without a careful source code audit you may have no clue as to whether you can trust the binaries. Again, if noone will trust /contrib, so noone will use it, then there will be no point to hosting it. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
