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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:25:50PM +0100, David Leverton wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 09:46:52 Alex Alexander wrote: |
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> > If the community feels their choice, albeit not perfect, will help the |
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> > project, you have to respect that. That is, if you want to be part of the |
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> > community :) |
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> I see your point to some extent, but the concern is that such decisions might |
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> sometimes get made according to who's best at ignoring technical objections |
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> rather than what's the best thing to do. It has happened before, although in |
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> that case the change was made first, and then when the issue was brought up |
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> it got basically ignored for so long that it would be pointless to fix. It |
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> would be worrying if things like that started to happen more often. |
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I understand your concern. But this is no such case. We went through the |
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discussion phase already. We're trying to avoid an endless loop. |
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> In any case, as mentioned in my other mail, if this particular change is done |
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> in a way that's optional for the user, I personally won't be /too/ upset if |
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> the rest of you want to do unspeakable things to your systems ;-). |
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This thread is about LDFLAGS+="--as-needed" in make.defaults, |
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which can be overridden, so I don't see any issues there either. |
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You're free to change the defaults if you don't like them :) |
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Alex Alexander :: wired |
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Gentoo Developer |
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