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On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: |
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> Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick: |
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> > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> >> This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is |
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> >> Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) |
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> > In what way is it bad? |
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> It is "bad" because |
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> a) it is new, and new stuff is always evil :-P |
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> b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without |
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> autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With |
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> autounmask it shows what needs to be done. |
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That is probably the most evil of all your reasons. There's an old dev |
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joke about The Law Of Unintended Consequences, and it applies here - |
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portage is now suddenly doing something new and 180 different from |
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what it used to do. The normal response if "WTF?" followed by lots of |
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indignation |
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> c) it is a big change that came wihout any warning |
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> d) it is an automation, and because of that a red flag for any "real |
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> gentoo user" :-D |
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I agree, it's all bad. |
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