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Thomas Anderson wrote: |
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> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: |
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>>> Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users |
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>>> will have months and months of noise when new rules come along. |
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>> "unacceptable"... |
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>> as in "it's ugly to see"... |
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> No, it's unacceptable because stable users do not need that kind of |
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> stuff thrown at them. Stable users use stable because they want a very |
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> predictable workflow. Noisy errors that shouldn't affect them(they are |
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> in the stable branch) *is* unacceptable, and not just because it's ugly, |
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> though that's certainly part of it. |
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You have quite a good point here. It's purely cosmetical, but since it's |
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an unexpected behavior and it's annoying and could alienate our users |
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it's better to avoid it with all our strength. |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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