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Zac Medico wrote: |
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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docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially outdated |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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I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between |
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screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to |
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trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out |
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there; then I'd be more for a change like that. The problem is last |
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time it was dead silent; oh it's in the upgrade guide, great; we already |
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know that not everyone reads it. At that point you are just leaving the |
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pit for them to walk into. IMHO, thats irresponsible of Gentoo as a |
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whole. |
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