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On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:02:38 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 6 May 2007 14:53:22 -0400 |
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> Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > One of the reasons GLEP 42 was necessary was because users *don't* |
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> > > read things delivered by other methods. |
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> > And they are magically going to read the news? |
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Experience being two news items about one package. Expand this to a tree |
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size, where the user has around 400-500 packages. If they get news about |
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changes that will increase their experience for each one of these, they are |
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looking at reading the New York Times of gentoo every day. It's not going |
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to happen. |
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> Experience with a reference implementation strongly suggests that yes, |
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> people will read the news. |
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> > I doubt it if it continues to be as trivial as the first suggested |
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> > item. |
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> Paludis users do not consider that news item trivial. |
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If I was a paludis user I would considder this trivial. The same information |
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is availible a) from the package itself. b) from the changelog, and c) it |
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still works without the change! |
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