Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:27:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > > Don't you think the default action here should be to do nothing
> > > instead of
> > > breaking my system?
> >
> >    "That proposal is ludicrous and completely counter to the Unix
> >     way of doing things."
> >
> > Not my opinion, just quoting.
>
> nice one :-)
>
> The Unix way is to do what the user told it to do, no more and no less.
>
> If you tell the system to install a driver, ignore the prompt or even
> type "y", why are users constantly surprised when the system does
> exactly what they told it to do? What's the computer supposed to say?

Except in this case, portage knew the action was risky but issued the
warning after the event "you really shouldn't have done that", like a
typical smartarse with20:20 hindsight.

There are numerous examples of ebuilds that stop if an upgrade is risky,
postfix is one such, and provide the user with the an option to
carry on if they choose, usually be setting an environment variable.

I really don't see the point in an ebuild making this sort of test and
then continuing to install anyway.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.