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Brian Harring posted <20060415023512.GC12830@nightcrawler>, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 19:35:12 -0700: |
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> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 11:01:56AM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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>> On Saturday 15 April 2006 03:31, Brian Harring wrote: |
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>> > cache backend selection (failed import == defaults to sys default) |
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>> This is incorrect. It displays an error message and quits. |
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> Still leaves the other features then (and raises the question that |
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> it's not internally totally standard)... |
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> Either way, standard for it is preferable (again, prefer failures |
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> myself, but I'm not a normal user)... |
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Wouldn't the "help them out" default be consistent with the |
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"non-interactive" goal for portage? Quit if there's no sane way to go |
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forward without potentially breaking a system, but otherwise, use sane |
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fallbacks where they are possible. |
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That would seem to me to be the rationale behind the current standard |
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behavior. Personally, I prefer a bit more interactivity in cases like |
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that as well, but I definitely see the argument for continuing if it's |
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possible to do in a sane manner. |
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(It should be obvious, but for completeness, "interactivity" in this case |
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refers to the global scale of quitting and waiting for the user to fix |
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something, not interactivity within the app.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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