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On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:22:23 +0200 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> >> In the discussions that led to inclusion of the feature in EAPI 4, |
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> >> it was implicit that it would be possible to override the default. |
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> >> This can only work if "$@" goes after all default options. |
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> > But that wasn't got approved by the Council... |
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> Sure it was. Read the full thread that belongs to the message quoted |
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> earlier: You had announced the EAPI 3 (what later became 4) branch |
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> with the --d-d-t feature, asking council members for comments. Your |
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> message mentioning econf --enable-dependency-tracking was a reply to |
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> leio's question about the feature. |
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> How else should one understand this, if not as a clarification that |
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> overriding the default should be possible? |
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What ultimately got approved by the Council, and what implementers |
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should be following, is the wording which ended up in PMS. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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