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Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 10:51 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>Or you can just unmask it locally and stop whining. |
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> I think users have a valid reason to be concerned about this, but if |
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> that is the developer's intention (to unmask it locally) then may I |
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> suggest this information be provided somehow to the user? Before now |
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> the only information I got was it was masked because it doesn't work... |
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> even though it has been working, at least for some users, for quite some |
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> time. I'm not trying to whine, just to get the what and whys. |
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It's really not the best idea to be using ~arch on a box with important data. |
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And if you are going to be running ~arch, you should really know what it means |
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to do so and how to use it properly. I recommend reading |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=3>. Of |
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course, having done a gentoo install already, you should have already read |
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through the entire handbook and thoroughly understood its contents :P |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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