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From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o>
To: Gentoo Development <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:13:33
Message-Id: 200908220115.22779.Arfrever@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" by Ciaran McCreesh
1 2009-08-22 00:51:14 Ciaran McCreesh napisał(a):
2 > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:40:04 +0200
3 > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> wrote:
4 > > I would like to also notice that (not yet approved by Council)
5 > > definition of nonfatal() in PMS was recently drastically changed
6 > > without proper discussion with developers of other package managers.
7 > > [1] was sent about 20 minutes after discussion about nonfatal()
8 > > started in #gentoo-portage in about 2009-08-06 19:45 UTC. (I'm
9 > > attaching IRC log from #gentoo-portage (in UTC+02 timezone).) I think
10 > > that such drastic changes should be first discussed on gentoo-dev
11 > > mailing list.
12 >
13 > There was no change to the definition of nonfatal.
14
15 There was a change regardless of what you think.
16
17 > There was a clarification of the wording after it became clear that there
18 > was room to misinterpret the intent of the original wording, and it went
19 > through the usual Council-mandated process for such a change.
20
21 This sentence contradicts your first sentence. Additionally you had deceived
22 Christian Faulhammer by not presenting negative consequences of your patch and
23 your interpretation of original wording of definition of nonfatal().
24
25 --
26 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

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