On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >> I thought the idea was to get better bug reports from users. But it >> seems that the extra information isn't that useful for bug reports > >> because most users install from binaries (for which we already know >> the build information). >> > Not necessarily. There are a myriad Linux distributions and for each > bug report the user/devel are unlikely to check the packaging habits > of the given distro.
Good point. But if someone is on Linux they are probably comfortable doing --version. That's not true for everyone though. I know people who use Linux and are still terrified by the terminal. Scott > My 00.02€ > Liviu
