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On 11/14/2011 10:34 AM, Dale wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> As I type: |
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>>> |
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>>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% |
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>>> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to |
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>>> work like they have always worked. I say that as a user. |
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>> As I've explained in my post to that forum thread [1], you have to |
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>> factor in the "silent majority" that welcomes the change and does not |
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>> express it publicly. A forumor mailing list thread tends to attract a |
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>> "vocal minority", which tends to bias the discussion (or voting results) |
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>> in way that does not give a fair statistical representation of the |
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>> gentoo population as a whole (it excludes the "silent majority"). It's |
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>> part of human nature that those who are displeased with the changed more |
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>> likely to speak up than those who welcome the change. |
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>> [1] |
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>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6871718.html?sid=960ebd269384029c21e708d8dfa745ef#6871718 |
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> The same could be said if the poll was going the other way as well. |
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Well the part about human nature has some tricky implications. It means |
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that the "vocal minority" is likely to contain a larger percentage of |
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unhappy people than percentage that exists in the whole population. |
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> If |
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> the results are not going to be used or just going to be explained away, |
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> then why have the poll to begin with? |
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Why do we go on living when we know that we will eventually die and that |
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there will be no trace left of our existence? Life is a journey, and we |
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are required to surrender all of our souvenirs in the end. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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