Marc Balmer <m...@msys.ch> writes:

> Am 03.03.15 um 14:35 schrieb Greg Troxel:
>> 
>> chris...@astron.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:
>> 
>>> If we want to make every single change to go through
>>> tech-userlevel, we should institute a rule to do so. To my
>>> knowledge we don't have yet such a rule. We already have the rest
>>> of the p* programs which originated in Solaris, we were missing
>>> this one, so it made sense to me to add it.
>> 
>> We do sort of have a rule, which is that significant changes need 
>> discussion.  I would say adding programs to base always counts.
>> Other than that, it's trickier, but if there's a reasonable
>> likelihood of a valid objection, I'd say it's over the line into
>> signficant/discuss.
>
> Adding new stuff bears a low risk of breaking existing stuff, so I
> think it does not need discussion all the time.

I meant that adding to base was discuss-worthy because there's a "bloat
or necessary" question, not because of risk of breakage.

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