Post #3255829
2026-05-29 16:12 UTC
@odd@mstdn.social @hailey@hails.org
Given a choice between freezing all packages before vibe coding was "discovered" and packaging upstream releases, the former is not fully practical. The Gentoo social contract requires following council mandated policies about how one interacts with the Gentoo project, but doesn't control what other projects merge.
The kernel is slopcoded too, but we can't exactly do without that, now can we? Well, okay, we recently added experimental GNU Hurd support. :P
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@eschwartz@fosstodon.org 2026-05-29 16:16
@odd@mstdn.social @hailey@hails.org That doesn't mean we have to put up with horrid slop, it just means that blanket forbidding all LLM assisted software is in practice unenforceable outside our community (where we cannot analyze PRs and require assertion of non-use). Inevitably the result of slop is that the software deteriorates and doesn't work, and Gentoo may respond by freezing updates or removing it entirely (see chardet being frozen). We do what we can, and we make our disapproval clear regarding the rest.