On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 12:05:10 PM EST Michał Górny wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:00:52 +0700 (+07) > > gro...@gentoo.org wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jan 2017, Brian Evans wrote: > > > IMO, this one should be given last-rites as upstream is dead and it > > > heavily depends on wireless-tools and WEXT. > > > > I use it on 2 notebooks. It works fine, and is (from my point of view) the > > most convenient tool to control ethernet and wifi connections on a > > notebook. Why lastrite it when it works? > > This is the Gentoo Way™. Having a working software is not a goal. > Gentoo focuses on the best bleeding edge experience and therefore > highly relies on software packages that are under active development > and require active maintenance. The packages in early stages of > development are especially interesting since they can supply users > and developers with variety of interesting bugs and unpredictable > issues.
Do we have detailed treatise documenting the points and counterpoints to "Why lastrite it when it works?" It's a question that comes up every month or two, and the reasons, for and against, are probably mature enough to get numbers, now. Reason #3 in favor: "It works for me" may only be valid from a particular perspective. Without active maintenance, there may be subtle bugs that aren't immediately obvious. Bugs that aren't immediately obvious aren't always innocuous; sometimes they're insidious background data loss. Other times, they might be security vulnerabilities no good guy has yet noticed.
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