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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>:
<snip>
> This entire conversation, Seth, is a waste of everyone's time. Think about it:
> we're discussing whether a feature that is useful and widely used in the
> project, suddenly has to be removed. There's nothing wrong with this feature.
> Somebody decided they don't want it, and I disagreed. It's like removing ATA
> support from the kernel because SCSI is better and faster. It's chilarious at
> best.

"Somebody" being the Sorcery Lead, the QA Lead, ISO Lead, Project
Lead and several developers. All discussed on IRC and then brought up
on the ML for discussion for those who weren't on IRC at the time.

Your example is false in that removing hashsums in favour of GPG keys
is not at all like removing ATA in favour of SCSI. We won't be
breaking any boxes or removing support for the majority of users'
systems by moving from hashsums to GPG, and we provide a deprecated
interface for a while.

- -sandalle

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