On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:40:04 +0200
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfre...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I would like to also notice that (not yet approved by Council)
> definition of nonfatal() in PMS was recently drastically changed
> without proper discussion with developers of other package managers.
> [1] was sent about 20 minutes after discussion about nonfatal()
> started in #gentoo-portage in about 2009-08-06 19:45 UTC. (I'm
> attaching IRC log from #gentoo-portage (in UTC+02 timezone).) I think
> that such drastic changes should be first discussed on gentoo-dev
> mailing list.

There was no change to the definition of nonfatal. There was a
clarification of the wording after it became clear that there was room
to misinterpret the intent of the original wording, and it went through
the usual Council-mandated process for such a change.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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