Zac Medico wrote:
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Alec Warner wrote:
Zac Medico wrote:
I'm not sure what the probability of people hurting themselves like
this is. Perhaps it's a negligible corner case and a note in the
upgrade guide will be enough to keep the vast majority of users on the
right track. I'd hope that a user would be wise enough to read some
docs prior to switching to a new profile with a potentially outdated
version of portage.
Damn your mail client ;)
The past[1] has shown that users don't read docs.
[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63400
Perhaps users that can't be troubled to read an upgrade guide [1] don't deserve
to have a functioning system? To me, it seems awfully irresponsible to switch
to a new profile that one knows nothing about. If the user is irresponsible
enough to do that, then who knows what other irresponsible things they might do?
Zac
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml#doc_chap3
I think both our points are that there is a middle ground between
screwing the user outright and holding their hand. If you want to
trumpet the change on forums, on www, on -announce, get the message out
there; then I'd be more for a change like that. The problem is last
time it was dead silent; oh it's in the upgrade guide, great; we already
know that not everyone reads it. At that point you are just leaving the
pit for them to walk into. IMHO, thats irresponsible of Gentoo as a
whole.
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