On Dec 16, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:
Hi,
--On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2004 17:32:11 Uhr MEZ +0100 "David H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| 2. There is also a question about what the default value should be for
| the global UseBinaryDist option. At the moment, any user who runs "fink
| --configure" and who hasn't previously made a choice about UseBinaryDist
| will be asked a new question about whether to use it, with the default
| answer being "Yes." What worries me about this is that a user might not
| notice this question, and just select the default answer (along with a
| bunch of other defaults that are agreeing with previous choices). Then,
| all of a sudden, the behavior of fink will change in a dramatic way!
Imho this should _always_ default to no.
could you explain why? I think one of fink's main problems is its dearth of binary packages and that new users can't figure out how to get those that exist. Defaulting to binary is the appropriate thing to do for unsophisticated users, IMHO. The sophisticated ones will figure out how to get source versions ...
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Sebastian Hagedorn PGP key ID: 0x4D105B45
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The notion is to prevent _established_ users from unexpectedly changing how Fink operates by just picking the default answer.
New users would default to "UseBinaryDist: yes", and this would remain the case until they turn it off themselves.
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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