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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 66880] "Index out of date" completely broken UI-wise
From:       Markus Baumeister <markus () spampit ! retsiemuab ! de>
Date:       2003-11-01 15:53:58
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------- Additional Comments From markus@spampit.retsiemuab.de  2003-11-01 16:53 \
------- Not that continuing this thread will bring anything useful, but since you \
mentioned this nice example 

> Ever tried running make on such a system? 

Yes, I have done that several times. Let's have a look what actually happens with \
wrong time on the NFS client & 'make': Typically it will work! It might compile \
everything twice or thrice, but it will work. The only user intervention required is \
a 'make clean' up front in case you changed some source code. So, what happens is \
that CPU time is wasted. CPU is cheap.

Now compare that to KMail. KMail will resurrect all deleted mail since the last \
compact (and that might be quite a lot since KMail might have decided not to compact \
at all). Given current SNR with e-mails this more or less makes the e-mail folder \
unusable and wastes _user_ time (to delete things again). User time typically is not \
cheap, especially not for some monotonous and useless task like re-examing old \
e-mail.

So 'make' handles time differences gracefully. KMail does not. As I said, completely \
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