F21 Self Contained Change: Playground repository
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Apr 8 17:23:26 UTC 2014
Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> Ask yourself which is more important to most users:
> 1) My OS is perfectly maintainable by engineers.
> or
> 2) My OS lets me install the software I need without hassle.
>
> Offering users a slightly-less stringent repository such as this makes
> sense.
Adding repos definitely should not be taken lightly. Frankly, if 2 is
really something worth doing, then perhaps also the (overly?) stringent
policies need rethinking.
I freely admit there's definitely some gray area here, and maybe another
repo is indeed the right (ie, least-bad) approach.
-- Rex
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