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On Tuesday 16 November 2004 16:13, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> My question is, how can we improve this situation? Portage really needs a |
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> decent messaging system to convey messages like this. It's in the works, |
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> right? It seems long overdue now... |
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See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 for a lot of discussion about |
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this feature. |
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> In the meantime, could we have handled this better with the resources |
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> available to us right now? How have other people coped with similar |
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> changes? |
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I agree with you that the best solution is to show important messages after |
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the installation. To answer your question about this specific case; I think |
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timing was not very fortunately. Maybe you needed to wait a little bit longer |
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between announcement and marking stable of the package. |
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But you must realise that there are users out there who know very little about |
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Linux in general and Gentoo in specific that will start to flame if something |
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goes wrong nomatter how well you prepare and announce changes. Also realise |
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that these (sometimes very loud) users only represent a very small fraction |
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of the userbase and the most of them really appreciate your work. |
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