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* Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55  (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
  @ 2009-02-25 16:20 99%                     ` Luca Barbato
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From: Luca Barbato @ 2009-02-25 16:20 UTC (permalink / raw
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Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>> Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users
>>> will have months and months of noise when new rules come along.
>> "unacceptable"...
>>
>> as in "it's ugly to see"...
>>
> 
> No, it's unacceptable because stable users do not need that kind of
> stuff thrown at them. Stable users use stable because they want a very
> predictable workflow. Noisy errors that shouldn't affect them(they are
> in the stable branch) *is* unacceptable, and not just because it's ugly,
> though that's certainly part of it.

You have quite a good point here. It's purely cosmetical, but since it's 
an unexpected behavior and it's annoying and could alienate our users 
it's better to avoid it with all our strength.

lu

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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero




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2009-02-24  7:08     ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 14:19       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:04         ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 16:14           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 17:16             ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 18:24               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25  3:04                 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 15:33                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 15:56                     ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:02                       ` Thomas Anderson
2009-02-25 16:20 99%                     ` Luca Barbato

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