Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>> Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users
>>> will have months and months of noise when new rules come along.
>> "unacceptable"...
>>
>> as in "it's ugly to see"...
>>
> 
> No, it's unacceptable because stable users do not need that kind of
> stuff thrown at them. Stable users use stable because they want a very
> predictable workflow. Noisy errors that shouldn't affect them(they are
> in the stable branch) *is* unacceptable, and not just because it's ugly,
> though that's certainly part of it.

You have quite a good point here. It's purely cosmetical, but since it's 
an unexpected behavior and it's annoying and could alienate our users 
it's better to avoid it with all our strength.

lu

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Luca Barbato
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero