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Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>> If you think lsusb is important or not important for installcd, please |
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>> help explain why. |
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> Seriously, wtf is your problem? Why do you keep challenging the |
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> decisions made by release engineering, first on bugs and then on the MLs |
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> when you don't get your way? Chris is the head of Release Engineering, |
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> which means he gets to make the decisions relevant to the install media. |
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> He's been doing it a long time, and there have been very few people that |
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> have disagreed with what he does. |
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I actually tend to agree with Chris's decision in this case, but it |
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certainly shouldn't be frowned upon if a user wants to raise a question |
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like this to a broader forum. For all we know 75 users will post |
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stating that for whatever reason they found having lsusb available was |
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useful in their installs. Now, I consider that unlikely, but if for |
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whatever reason it turned out to be the case we'd all be better for |
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knowing about it. |
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The mailing list post was pretty matter-of-fact and wasn't posed as a |
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troll of any kind. An issue was pointed out, the pros and cons were |
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pointed out generally, and opinion was sought. |
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Sure, release engineering will end up making the final call, but they're |
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obviously going to want to make the install media the best it can be - |
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with the obvious compromise between size and usability. I tend to think |
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that they have made the right decision already, and I'm sure that |
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they'll make the right call if for whatever reason the mailing list |
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discussion brings up anything important that wasn't considered. |
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And if it does bother you that somebody posted this question on a |
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mailing list just ignore it - most threads like this die out with only |
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two responses. Few of us have paid anything for gentoo, so to some |
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degree we need to be happy with what we get, but I'm sure most devs are |
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happy to at least try to give the customers what they want when it |
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doesn't cost anything. In this case there is a cost, so just point it |
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out in a friendly way... |
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