On 21 August 2015 at 13:03, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > I'd rather see groups like QA making proposals to improve cross-Gentoo > consistency than see stagnation. It was an RFC, and people can post > issues with it, or escalate to Council if they're concerned. If > taking it to Council I'd suggest you might want to come up with a > better argument than "who cares about consistency?"
Consistency is a fine goal, but "global" consistency can cost local consistency in detrimental ways. Hence why "DSLs" exist. For instance if we decided to make all sports consistent, we'd have 3 games where people hit balls with bats, and alternated between running with them and kicking them, and they'd all be consistent, but the game itself would become confusing and pointless. I think its fine for some parts of trees to have local standards, so that people using those parts of trees the most get the benefits out of huffmanization. No vote from me, I just don't see a point in changing something that isn't broken for the sake of change, where the result may be a net detriment and increase in complexity for consumers. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL
