Am 31.08.2014 17:58, schrieb Paul Wise: > There is also a downside to raising priorities in this way; raising > the priority of dependencies of higher-priority packages means that if > implementations of higher-priority packages change and the (now higher > priority) dependencies are no longer needed, we have to do work to > revert those changes. I think they would end up as cruft that is > forgotten about or just cause busywork that we can avoid in the first > place by not raising priority of dependencies.
Completely agreed. That's why I believe it's counterproductive to raise the priorities or library or helper packages. Those packages should never be pulled on their own due to their priority. I think policiy should really be changed in that regard. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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