From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: aegis: New variable. Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:22:14 +0200 Message-ID: <20140720192214.GA29026@jocasta.intra> References: <1405518437-24315-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87r41kdo87.fsf@gnu.org> <20140717160528.GB3678@intra> <874myfd1b5.fsf@gnu.org> <20140718043536.GA25423@jocasta.intra> <87silyltxd.fsf@gnu.org> <20140720071859.GA13707@jocasta.intra> <87k3789m1c.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43307) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8wgk-0001u2-5t for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:22:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X8wgf-000055-Uv for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jul 2014 15:22:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k3789m1c.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 03:50:39PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: =20 > Arguably this is deficiency of aegis itself. =20 That???s what I would say. After all, software is usually installable= as non-root, so when that doesn???t work, it should at least fail gracefu= lly. =20 Normally, I would pass such comments onto the author for his response. Ho= wever I=20 understand that the Aeigs author is very seriously ill, so under the circum= stances I am reluctant to do so. J' --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPMFuYACgkQimdxnC3oJ7N1vgCghnjusioCCFjBm5eg929zksAl TGMAmwU+VdXR8ZaZ3MOA9aSSJVC7ieCy =4uML -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS--