Distribution quotes of the week

More rules will never save an organization. Sometimes you need rules, but I think that for a group like Gentoo to work well we need to keep them to a minimum. "Well, that's not written in black and white so I won't cooperate until it is" is no reason for anybody to pause even a moment before escalating. Unclear policies are a reason to assume good intentions - not a reason to overlook obvious bad intentions. You can't solve a people problem with a better algorithm.

A long time ago, far far away there was an Operating System named Red Hat Linux. In that Operating System there was an installer which had an option called "( ) Install Everything". Now "( ) Install Everything" was a wonderful tool for QA a release because one could get everything onto one system and find all the problems people could run into (oooh need more than 8GB to install stuff, oh look package XYZ conflicts with ABC, oh hey this package if installed will reboot your system.). It was also a bane of developers because people by their nature will install everything and then open bugs because one really only wanted Reboot-My-Box-Daily-0.1.rpm installed if you knew what you were doing. And because so many people would install everything and complain about things like "My goodness Red Hat Linux is bloated! It takes over 8 GB to install now.", it was decided to remove it.