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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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>> 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. 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? I don't think you started the |
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poll but just saying. . . |
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Again, as a loooooong time user, I expect things to remain like they are |
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unless that is going to break something or is a must change with no |
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other option. That does happen from time to time but this is not one of |
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those times. I shouldn't have to go override settings just to keep it |
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like it was. |
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All this said, if my opinion doesn't matter, that's fine. I changed my |
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make.conf already. So now your change doesn't affect me. It just may |
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confuse the heck out of others that don't subscribe here and know about |
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the change. That is the biggest reason I subscribed here a long time |
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ago. Changes pop up that I wasn't expecting and I tend to like to see |
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things coming even if it is a freight train. ;-) This gives me time to |
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undo some things or at least prepare for them. |
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Later. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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