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Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.


From: Ralf Corsepius
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'.
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:10:48 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2009-03-09 15:57, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
For this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all.
FWIW: I am opposed to it.

All this silencing stuff does is to add further potential sources of errors.
Which ones, please?
Those yet to be discovered.

Oh what great prejudice.
No, that's experience and a matter of design.

IMNSHO, this --silent thing is entirely superfluous featuritis, whose only achievement it is to stir up things.





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