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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:46:30 -0600 Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> wrote: |
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> | > > Could you spell out that exception clause, please? |
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> | > |
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> | > It doesn't translate well into words, but we'll go with something |
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> | > like "Unless you know exactly why the rule is there, understand |
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> | > fully the implications of breaking it, and know why it's a |
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> | > good idea in this particular case." |
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> | > However, if you're in a position to be invoking that clause, you |
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> | > should know about it anyway. |
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> | Can we skip the sekrit rulez crap and just spell it out? Really, how |
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> | does this help anyone? |
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> It's quite simple. You don't do it unless you are fully aware of the |
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> consequences. If you have to ask, you aren't fully aware of the |
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> consequences so you mustn't do it. |
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Which clearly doesn't answer Ryan's question... but hey... that's a |
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Ciaran answer... |
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Basically the idea is that Ciaran and spb can protect their image as the |
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all knowing gods of programming. In other mailing lists they would be |
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considered trolls and/or Debian devs/users. |
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-- |
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |
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