Re: policy proposal: updating packages with many dependencies

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
>> Am 18.03.2025 um 20:50 schrieb David Brownlee:
>> > If I could suggest anything extra on top it would be an automatic
>> > warning from pkglint on the relevant base packages :)
>> 
>> My preferred way would be to mark these base packages by setting a
>> special variable (similar to META_PACKAGE). This way, pkglint doesn't
>> need a hard-coded list of package paths on which to warn.
>
> Let's paint a shed: What should we call the variable?

I'll bite on painting.


> UPDATES_REQUIRE_REVIEW?

POLICY_UPDATES_REQUIRE_REVIEW

so we have a faux namespace that all variables about process start with
POLICY_.