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On Sunday 06 May 2007 3:28:41 pm Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sun, 6 May 2007 15:19:53 -0400 |
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> Dan Meltzer <hydrogen@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > > > *don't* 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 |
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> > tree size, where the user has around 400-500 packages. If they get |
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> > news about changes that will increase their experience for each one |
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> > of these, they are looking at reading the New York Times of gentoo |
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> > every day. It's not going to happen. |
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> And, if that happens (which it won't), we'll have more experience and |
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> we can evaluate future news items based upon that. A more realistic |
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> view for your typical user is less than a news item per week. |
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And what are you basing this on? |
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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 |
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> > information is availible a) from the package itself. b) from the |
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> > changelog, and c) it still works without the change! |
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> But you aren't, and those who are disagree. |
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I've yet to here from the "those who are" otherwise yet. |
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Would the thoses who are be the same ones that you called idiots for writing |
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horrible hooks that broke their system? or would this be a different group of |
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those who ares? |
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