Package Maintainers Flags policy

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 18 May 2009, Denis Leroy wrote:

> On 05/18/2009 07:32 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> And FYI, the current policy doesn't ban flags entirely, but they have to 
>>> be
>> in a -flags package which is not installed by default
>
> That's about the same as banning them. What percentage of users do you think 
> will install them, let alone be aware they exist ? I understand the reasoning 
> behind this policy, but overall this seems like a gross overreaction. We have 
> a vast international community here, why not let this community write up a 
> black-list of sensitive flags to avoid, rather than ban'em all ?
>

B/c the members from Ihaterandomstan and the folks from randomstan will 
never come to consensus short of involving the UN or possibly Jimmy 
Carter.

-sv