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On 17:11 Fri 06 Jun , Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> It's not about "forcing" anyone to do something but giving people enough |
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> information on how to implement it _if they choose to do so_. With the |
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> current GLEP they'd have to make arbitrary decisions if e.g. a flag is |
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> defined in both use.local.desc and metadata.xml, or some people might |
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> think that it replaces use.local.desc completely. |
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> Really, all I'm looking for is something like |
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> "This proposal does not intend to replace the existing use.local.desc |
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> format. If a flag is defined for a package in both use.local.desc and |
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> metadata.xml the latter should be preferred by tools" |
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> Do you really consider that to be such a huge deal? |
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From a council perspective, I think that we should have GLEPs that |
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promote a certain solution as one that should be preferred and should |
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deprecate another. We need to take a stand on the best way to do things |
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and to have GLEPs that do the same, choosing the better direction to |
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motivate people to do things that way. If that stand turns out to be |
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wrong after people have spent some time doing the work, we can revert |
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the GLEP and unapprove it. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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