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.
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