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On 14 November 2011 10:34, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> On 11/14/2011 09:38 AM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> As I type: |
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>>> emerge should show build output by default (unless --quiet-build=y) 42% |
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>>> So far that's the winner. As I posted earlier, people expect things to |
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>>> work like they have always worked. I say that as a user. |
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>> As I've explained in my post to that forum thread [1], you have to |
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>> factor in the "silent majority" that welcomes the change and does not |
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>> express it publicly. A forumor mailing list thread tends to attract a |
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>> "vocal minority", which tends to bias the discussion (or voting results) |
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>> in way that does not give a fair statistical representation of the |
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>> gentoo population as a whole (it excludes the "silent majority"). It's |
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>> part of human nature that those who are displeased with the changed more |
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>> likely to speak up than those who welcome the change. |
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>> [1] |
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>> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6871718.html?sid=960ebd269384029c21e708d8dfa745ef#6871718 |
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> The same could be said if the poll was going the other way as well. If the |
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> results are not going to be used or just going to be explained away, then |
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> why have the poll to begin with? I don't think you started the poll but |
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> just saying. . . |
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> Again, as a loooooong time user, I expect things to remain like they are |
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> unless that is going to break something or is a must change with no other |
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> option. That does happen from time to time but this is not one of those |
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> times. I shouldn't have to go override settings just to keep it like it |
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> was. |
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Shouldn't you still be on MS-DOS then? ;-) Insisting that basically |
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nothing should ever change seems rather extreme... And not very |
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realistic? |
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> All this said, if my opinion doesn't matter, that's fine. I changed my |
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> make.conf already. So now your change doesn't affect me. It just may |
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> confuse the heck out of others that don't subscribe here and know about the |
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> change. That is the biggest reason I subscribed here a long time ago. |
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> Changes pop up that I wasn't expecting and I tend to like to see things |
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> coming even if it is a freight train. ;-) This gives me time to undo some |
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> things or at least prepare for them. |
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> Later. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> -- |
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> I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how |
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> you interpreted my words! |
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