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bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods
From: |
Deus Max |
Subject: |
bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:52:19 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Sat, Nov 02 2019, dick.r.chiang@gmail.com wrote:
> One, to reiterate, the patch at hand is a useability improvement, protecting
> new users from
> the byzantine distinction of primary/secondary, and preserving the distinction
> internally for backwards compatibility. Some have argued keeping the internal
> distinction makes the patch unworthy of the risk, to which I am sympathetic.
>
You agree it is a usability improvement and that the current behaviour is
a byzantine distinction.
Sometimes to move forward, you have to break continuity.
Especially with byzantine practises, old OSes, etc., etc.
> Two, with mild effort, I could fully eliminate the distinction without user
> guidance or manually rewriting newsrcs. Such a change exacerbates risk.
Which is probably not mild. As you will discover from the many-many bugs
that follow.