From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from parrot.gentoo.org (lists.gentoo.org [156.56.111.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1ME9HuI009668 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:09:18 GMT Received: (qmail 1717 invoked by uid 89); 22 Feb 2005 14:09:17 +0000 Received: (qmail 1344 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2005 14:09:17 +0000 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (64.233.184.194) by lists.gentoo.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2005 14:09:17 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so1290862wra for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:09:17 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=gIdXEOPIOfHN5fyqbLnKcBDJSotpFE9fqqXenEnahAw/SgQGiH3+I17yWeX/44/PjMWNW6MwZLgX0YnldekW+XjgFT2vBmMU6QT6u/JjIfco1uLONNI2ntxRXTw3vtJ1PVw1oCilh0sAxKj5zmuO/BS+KlK6ELTQqUen4Q7FcF8= Received: by 10.54.4.52 with SMTP id 52mr147378wrd; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:09:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.54.64 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:09:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:09:16 -0700 From: Collins Richey Reply-To: Collins Richey To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed patch In-Reply-To: <20050222115506.GA13882@phaenix.haell.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36acd65c050220230928e76206@mail.gmail.com> <20050221175845.GA9470@kroah.com> <20050222030120.GA8555@phaenix.haell.com> <20050222074052.GA20208@kroah.com> <20050222115506.GA13882@phaenix.haell.com> X-Archives-Salt: c071d26b-b185-4f38-9152-de7254e2e44c X-Archives-Hash: 2c8cfe784d05138c08ed35247d3f62db On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800, Drake Wyrm wrote: > This is actually an excellent illustration of my point. The patch I > mentioned as an example changes almost nothing. It adds one file and > touches the makefiles so that the build process notices it. Its > inclusion would be completely benign. > Sit back in your chair and think about that at least twice! I've been working in the computer industry for 30+ years, and I can't even begin to count the times when a total outage was followed by the excuse "But I just changed one line!". -- Collins -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list