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Date:      Sat, 6 Sep 2003 12:55:53 +0700
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/rescue/rescue Makefile
Message-ID:  <20030906055552.GA72373@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030905183127.GA849@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
References:  <42548.1062488547@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030902004917.S6074@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <3F58B8B7.30107@tcoip.com.br> <20030905110128.Y8003@znfgre.qbhto.arg> <20030905183127.GA849@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>

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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:31:27AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 11:05:09AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > >
> > > So this consensus isn't at all all that consensual.
> > 
> > "Consensus" does not mean "Universal Agreement."
> 
> It does mean "general agreement", so if you don't take universal
> literally then for all practical purposes it does mean universal
> agreement. This is also the crux: we never formally agreed on
> anything, because we cannot deal with the consequence: which is
> to unify all knobs. So, the only understanding we reached was that
> we have slightly more separatists than we have consolidators. But
> as long as we don't unify the usage of the existing knobs, this
> topic will be repeated ad nauseam.
> 
> Since I'm not going to change the knobs, I cannot force an outcome.

Methinks overall-acceptable practice would be renaming all to NO_FOO
scheme, leaving NOFOO compatibility glue code for knobs we have to keep
compatibility with lengthly.  All new ones, obviously, should go under
NO_FOO policy.

Just my $.02.

./danfe



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