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Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> 5 packages, and only one has nowebdav, and you want to make it a default |
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> USE flag? I strongly disagree here. Make it a plain useflag and notify |
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> users of subversion that the behaviour changed. Much better than |
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> informing users of the other 4 packages that the behaviour changed. |
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We have no statistics on this so I cannot prove but I can argue that |
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subversion is used most of all 4 packages. And I can also argue that having |
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webdav on by default will not cause any harm for the other packages, |
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because it just adds and does not remove functionality. It does no harm. |
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Thus having users informed is not crucial here |
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However doing the change in subversion will break current useage cases by |
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reducing functionality. Most users do not read elog messages and just will |
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get broken. |
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I see your problem and maybe there are ways of solving the problem: |
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- change all other 4 useflags to nowebdav, then make the webdav useflag |
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default, then change them all back to webdav. Maybe you are more happy with |
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such a gradual change. |
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- leave everything as is: it does work but I do not particularly like the |
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nowebdav useflag tho it is better than having subversion broken. |
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Best regards, |
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Stefan |
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