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On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 09:56:35PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | Then what is the point of this GLEP? Instead, just warn people |
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> | through existing intrastructure, which is cheap from an engineering |
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> | perspective because everything is already there in place, and don't |
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> | think of implementing all kinds of extras just to warn a user one |
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> | extra time, since "trying to warn them any further becomes futile" |
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> | anyway. |
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> The current warning levels we have are insufficient. This GLEP proposes |
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> a new system for warnings which will be far harder to accidentally |
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> ignore. There are, however, limits to how far we can reasonably go |
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> before we make the solution worse than the problem. |
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Remember that there are packages in the tree that satisfy the preemptive |
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requirement, since they simply die when trying to upgrade and a certain |
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amount of prerequisites is not met. This prevents the user from losing |
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data files or making them inaccesible, while at the same pointing out |
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what needs to be done and why, using a short message. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo for Mac OS X Project -- Interim Lead |
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