On Sat, 04 Oct 2014, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Janis Kracht:

 >> and debug.  Given that some of the current ZCs refuse to use 
 >> ERRFLAGS, I don't imagine they woul want to have the equivalent 
 >> added to MakeNL.

 JK> Good points Andrew. I would not like it merged with makenl.

 MvdV> Errflags can easely be configured to do "nothing". And so by 
 MvdV> implication would an an errflags merged with Makenl.

while i applaude ERRFLAGS operations, i do not like it because it forces
approved flags... even in "do nothing" mode the operator of said tool has to
deal with the so-called "errors"... U flags, in particular, were never supposed
to be "approved" and then there's the possibility of experimental flags which
generally start as U flags and then may be moved to non-U flags... this then
seems to become a political problem because some *C may not approve of said
flag while others might... thus we end up mixing politics with technical
aspects... this is not a GoodThing and it wasn't when ERRFLAGS was
introduced even though it gave the possibility of conformance it was and has
been used as a political tool instead of a technical tool...

)\/(ark