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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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> I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like |
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> this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the |
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> upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the |
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> right track. I'd hope that a user would be wise enough to read some |
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> docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially outdated |
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> version of portage. |
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>> Damn your mail client ;) |
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>> The past[1] has shown that users don't read docs. |
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>> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400 |
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Perhaps users that can't be troubled to read an upgrade guide [1] don't deserve to have a functioning system? To me, it seems awfully irresponsible to switch to a new profile that one knows nothing about. If the user is irresponsible enough to do that, then who knows what other irresponsible things they might do? |
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Zac |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3 |
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