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From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: patches/ handling
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On Thu 2000-06-08 (02:01), Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > I only change the behaviour of these to a way more useful way.
> 
> And that is subject to disagreement.  As has been pointed out, this
> "more useful way" reduces maintainability.  It has also been argued, and
> I agree, that the whole feature should just be removed.

I don't think there's disagreement.  The proposed behaviour is more
useful than the previous behaviour, which is the specific case of
architecture-dependent patches.

I do agree that the "feature" isn't necessary at this time, and quite
possibly may never be.  I'd be interested to see the usage of such in
the NetBSD tree, though.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
Sunesi Clinical Systems
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org


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