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).

Fair enough.  I'd just be a little concerned about the novice user
who might not be qualified to make this judgement.  Anyway I've made
my objections clear.  If the rest of the folks feel this is not
relevant or important, I'll just let it drop.

Venky.

-- 
One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong.
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