Hi Tobias,

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 11:01 AM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Thompson, David 写道：
> > The hostility here and in the other issue where you are applying
> > stop energy to my work is less than appreciated.
>
> Some healthy ‘stop energy’ was needed here, and in bug #56444.
>

It made me feel like my effort was not appreciated or wanted, so I don't
think it was healthy.

In this case I made a mistake and I'm sorry.  I thought Maxime hadn't
provided any context for saying something was a feature and not a bug,
which is why I asked for clarification and direction so I wasn't at a dead
end. I thought I was being dismissed. I tried to find a justification in
the source code and couldn't find it, so I thought it couldn't hurt to just
submit a patch and figure out what the issues might be.  It was a
misunderstanding and I'd like to reset and return to talking through the
technical issues of this bug report.


> Please spend that energy on fleshing out requirements and
> improving the patches if needed.  Maxime's review is a good start.
>

Yes, I agree now that I have the context that I missed the first time.


> Shopping around for a ‘core dev’ to fast-track these patches
> disrespects the work Maxime has already put in, and is not how
> things are done.  It won't happen.
>

 I am not trying to fast track anything, and certainly not the patch here.
I am going to write a separate message to go over the competing desires for
'guix shell' that make my proposed behavior change potentially
controversial.

Thanks,

- Dave