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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die"
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:51:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090821235114.274a6c7b@snowmobile> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908220040.09555.Arfrever@gentoo.org>

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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:40:04 +0200
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I would like to also notice that (not yet approved by Council)
> definition of nonfatal() in PMS was recently drastically changed
> without proper discussion with developers of other package managers.
> [1] was sent about 20 minutes after discussion about nonfatal()
> started in #gentoo-portage in about 2009-08-06 19:45 UTC. (I'm
> attaching IRC log from #gentoo-portage (in UTC+02 timezone).) I think
> that such drastic changes should be first discussed on gentoo-dev
> mailing list.

There was no change to the definition of nonfatal. There was a
clarification of the wording after it became clear that there was room
to misinterpret the intent of the original wording, and it went through
the usual Council-mandated process for such a change.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-21 22:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21 20:56 [gentoo-dev] EAPI 3 and "nonfatal die" David Leverton
2009-08-21 21:09 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-08-21 21:12   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-21 23:01     ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-08-21 23:06       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-21 23:20         ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-08-21 23:26           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-21 21:34 ` [gentoo-dev] " David Leverton
2009-08-21 22:40 ` [gentoo-dev] " Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-08-21 22:51   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-08-21 23:15     ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-08-21 23:28       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-21 23:39         ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-08-21 23:43           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-23  2:48             ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-08-23 15:19               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-22  2:46 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2009-08-24 18:20   ` Christian Faulhammer
2009-08-24 19:02     ` Thomas Anderson
2009-08-25 10:21     ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2009-08-25 11:35       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-08-24 22:09   ` Zac Medico
2009-08-24 22:16     ` Ciaran McCreesh

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