ACL removal day?!

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 19 15:42:48 UTC 2007


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:17 -0500, Jima wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> I invite everyone else who never felt the need for ACL's to join me, and 
>>> hereby declare this day ACL removal day.
>>   Hmm, good idea.  You're also raising awareness; I hadn't even noticed 
>> that my two newest packages *had* pkg.acl files, which I'm now remedying.
> 
> Suggestion for FESCO: new packages must explicitly request an ACL.

I would go further. Even for existing packages, package maintainers must 
specify good reasons for retaining ACL's and that must be documented 
explicitly in some prominent place.

Rahul




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