From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Annoyingly cautious make rules Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83ehwnc97k.fsf@gnu.org> <4ED917E2.7020807@cs.ucla.edu> <4ED94331.7030702@cs.ucla.edu> <4ED98EED.5020301@cs.ucla.edu> <4EDA8356.50609@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1323011092 14006 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2011 15:04:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:04:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, schwab@linux-m68k.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 04 16:04:47 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcV-0006Kp-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 16:04:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51945 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcT-0002MX-RW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48851) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcP-0002Lz-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:45 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcM-00079M-0t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57909) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcL-00078s-UQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:37 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RXDcJ-0002p7-SP; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 10:04:35 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:42:50 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:146477 Archived-At: I agree that the term "maintainer-mode" is now confusing, and that it would be good to either remove the option altogether, or rename --disable-maintainer-mode to --enable-loose-dependency-checking or somesuch. But such a change doesn't seem suitable for 24.1. The existing option name is not merely misleading, it is backwards. I think that qualifies as a bug. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/