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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:43:07
Message-Id: 20080104223754.3fb48b85@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Caleb Tennis
1 On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 17:26:39 -0500 (EST)
2 "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@g.o> wrote:
3 > > X and Y are pretty much irrelevant. The important factor is Z, the
4 > > impact of leaving things the way they are.
5 >
6 > Well, I'm asking the council to discuss when "pretty much" irrelevant
7 > no longer applies.
8
9 Compared to the cost of causing yet more arch breakage, which takes
10 huge amounts of time to fix and leads to far more problems, I'd say X
11 and Y should be something like one billion and three billion
12 respectively, except in those rare cases where Z is genuinely
13 significant.
14
15 Really, I'd like to see some genuine examples of cases where people
16 think they have a legitimate value of Z...
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>