[arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-19 Thread Dan McGee
Wow, I got blasted today with an 88 package upgrade on one of my machines, and this one really stuck out: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/lighttpd/trunk/lighttpd.install?revision=4866&view=markup I don't even know what is important anymore, so I just stopped reading as I'm sure most of our u

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-20 Thread Jan de Groot
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 19:09 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > 2. Showing me these optional things every single time I install is > stupid. Use optdepends and educate people to use -Qi. What about storing this information in the package database and let pacman use the information when installing/upgrading.

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-21 Thread James Rayner
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow, I got blasted today with an 88 package upgrade on one of my > machines, and this one really stuck out: > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/lighttpd/trunk/lighttpd.install?revision=4866&view=markup > > I don't even kno

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-21 Thread Thomas Bächler
Dan McGee schrieb: Wow, I got blasted today with an 88 package upgrade on one of my machines, and this one really stuck out: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/lighttpd/trunk/lighttpd.install?revision=4866&view=markup I don't even know what is important anymore, so I just stopped reading as I

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-21 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 19:09 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: >> 2. Showing me these optional things every single time I install is >> stupid. Use optdepends and educate people to use -Qi. > > What about storing this information in th

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-21 Thread Paul Mattal
Thomas Bächler wrote: Dan McGee schrieb: Wow, I got blasted today with an 88 package upgrade on one of my machines, and this one really stuck out: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/lighttpd/trunk/lighttpd.install?revision=4866&view=markup I don't even know what is important anymore, so I

Re: [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

2008-07-21 Thread Eduardo Romero
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 19:09 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > > OK, I'm done ranting, but I hope someone at least reads this. > > -Dan > As soon as I read this I changed my wine package to use optdepends instead, so I strongly agree with this. I think we should chnage accordingly. For the next wine rele