Hi, Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@medozas.de> writes:
> 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. Do you actually know what exactly this patch > series silences, or are you just guessing? If I understand the context, Ralf is objecting to the --silent-rules command-line option which makes it easy for distribution vendors to enable silent builds across the board by overriding $AUTOMAKE. I agree with the sentiment (somewhat hinted-to by Ralf Wildenhues in his commit message): this feature should be an opt-in by the package maintainer. He should take the responsibility for making the trade-off: easier-to-read "silent" builds vs. potential bugs due to hiding of information. - Hari
