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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 21 May 2009 19:57:49 +0200 |
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> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <Arfrever@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > We always have to assume that there might not be an up to date |
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>> > cache. The Gentoo rsync mirrors do not always ship up to date cache, |
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>> > particularly if someone's just changed a widely used eclass. |
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>> Users can wait an hour and run `emerge --sync` again. |
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> ...but that's not what happens. Instead, the users get their screen |
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> spammed with annoying messages, |
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Er I think you're confusing paludis and portage. |
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> get confused and run to bugzilla in droves. |
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Nice to see you have such a high opinion of our users. |
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IME users are more than happy to wait a bit and sync. I agree there's |
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work crying out to be done to make things more convenient. Your GLEPs |
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don't begin to address those issues, unfortunately. |
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Here, this sums up what's wrong with most of your cockamamy ideas (as |
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attractive, and oh so right, as they may seem to you now): |
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s07.html |
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To paraphrase you: Go and read it and don't come back til you've |
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actually understood the concepts. |
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> This just takes us right back to the bad old days when changing |
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> anything would result in mass user confusion. The whole 'EAPI' thing |
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> wasn't an arbitrary whim. |
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Nor was it supposed to be a six-monthly dump to the list along with a |
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whole slew of new, half-baked 'proposals' "everyone has to comply" with |
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as "it's in PMS." |
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Abuse of process doesn't make you right; it just makes you annoying. |
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