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From: Ben Kohler <bkohler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for upower
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:42:19
Message-Id: CANSUr=KZfXpPZnzn8zNZO_x+1=jKSQoWyTGnwibR5N7pjGEN_w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for upower by Samuli Suominen
1 On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 > Wrong. I'm always using the -t (--tree) flag with Portage and I would
6 > have seen upower being the culprit immediately,
7 > and second command would have been `eix upower` to see available
8 > versions, at which point I would have seen
9 > upower-pm-utils, and figured it out.
10 >
11 > - Samuli
12 >
13 > I'm glad this fire has mostly been put out, but I think you are making
14 quite a leap here that normal users can "see upower-pm-utils, and figure it
15 out". You may be too close to this problem to understand just how
16 confusing it is to everyone else.
17
18 No offense intended.
19
20 -Ben

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for upower Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>