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From: Thomas Anderson <gentoofan23@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:02:17
Message-Id: 20090225160212.GA3509@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by Luca Barbato
1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
2 >> Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users
3 >> will have months and months of noise when new rules come along.
4 >
5 > "unacceptable"...
6 >
7 > as in "it's ugly to see"...
8 >
9
10 No, it's unacceptable because stable users do not need that kind of
11 stuff thrown at them. Stable users use stable because they want a very
12 predictable workflow. Noisy errors that shouldn't affect them(they are
13 in the stable branch) *is* unacceptable, and not just because it's ugly,
14 though that's certainly part of it.
15
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18 Thomas Anderson
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