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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, Michiel de Bruijne wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 16:13, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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> > My question is, how can we improve this situation? Portage really needs a |
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> > decent messaging system to convey messages like this. It's in the works, |
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> > right? It seems long overdue now... |
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> See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11359 for a lot of discussion about |
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> this feature. |
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> > In the meantime, could we have handled this better with the resources |
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> > available to us right now? How have other people coped with similar |
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> > changes? |
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> I agree with you that the best solution is to show important messages after |
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> the installation. To answer your question about this specific case; I think |
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> timing was not very fortunately. Maybe you needed to wait a little bit longer |
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> between announcement and marking stable of the package. |
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> But you must realise that there are users out there who know very little about |
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> Linux in general and Gentoo in specific that will start to flame if something |
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> goes wrong nomatter how well you prepare and announce changes. Also realise |
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> that these (sometimes very loud) users only represent a very small fraction |
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> of the userbase and the most of them really appreciate your work. |
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Hi, |
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I'm not a Gentoo developer, so if you feel this message is just a noise, |
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I'm very sorry! |
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I know lot of users with very different habits and knowledge. |
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I think, that the knowledge is the bottle-neck at this case. |
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Lot of users don't know anything about PORTAGE_LOGDIR and the |
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portage-log filter scripts. I think the abilities of portage is enough, |
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but these aren't well-known enough. Maybe somebody (for example me) |
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should create an overview about PORTAGE_LOGDIR and portage-log filters. |
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It could go to the next GWN's tips&tricks article. |
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Any opinion? |
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Cheers, |
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Tamas Sarga |
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