Hmmm, your WARNING looks for me like an unsafe GO decision. But it is a GO
decision. Only it has attached with it a warning message. So you are well
within the GO / NO GO pattern.

Actually a WARNING is only necessary because the check is not precise enough
about the state of the system. If you'd have precise information about the
system, you could make a clean decision and _know_ whether this is a GO or a
NO GO. Without the warning message. (And I understand that such cases with
imprecise checks can exist).

Best regards,
Erich


On Saturday 22 July 2006 23:01, Geoffroy VALLEE wrote:
> I do not agree with that, one example: on Debian the package manager, apt, is 
> based on the configuration specified in /etc/apt/sources.list. Depending on 
> the installation method this file may be completely empty, or partially 
> filled-up. It is possible to check if the file is empty and if entries are 
> there. It is not possible to check if an entry is valid for a specific use 
> since the repo URL does not specify anything about the content, especially 
> since it is possible to setup a specific repo like what we do in oscar.
> 
> So we may need a warning mechanism when we check the apt 
> configuration: "warning we do not find any online Debian repo" (it may be 
> local) or "warning we do not find an OSCAR repo, based on specified URL" (but 
> the user may use a repo we do not know with a URL that we cannot fully 
> check).
> 
> If i am not clear let me i can give more details.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Le vendredi 21 juillet 2006 05:15, Erich Focht a écrit :
> > I do understand that you have and need the states SUCCEED and FAIL, but
> > don't understand why a WARN is needed. Either the system is ready for
> > proceeding or it is not. This sanity check is actually doing a GO / NO GO
> > decision. For me there's no room in between. If you have a warning that
> > something _might_ go wrong, you should better fix it, and a warning is for
> > me a NO GO.


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