mhoyeMar 6

I'm trying very hard not to get into a fight on github after being told that a package manager should implement _mechanism_ not _policy_, a canard I haven't heard in probably 15 years.

Deciding not to set safe, reasonable defaults is an abdication of responsibility. It's negligence. We've tried doing it that way and we just know that now.

Show threadChris SiebenmannMar 6
@mhoye Scooby Doo meme:
"Mechanism, not policy"
takes ghost's hood off
"Policy"
There's always policy underneath.
Show threadChris Siebenmann
@mhoye Am I still salty that X's "mechanism not policy" had a lot of implicit policy in it for things like window managers, constraining you to a particular style of window manager? Yes, yes I am.
Mar 6 at 8:20pmWeb