On 8/13/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 14 August 2006 04:39, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> This was not the first time. It wasn't the last either -- I'm looking at a
> new fresh crop. Am I then to understand that none of these messages will
> ever be warning ME that I need to do something (actually, I know that's not
> true).
>
> If not, how am I to tell? What clues are you guys going on? Is it just
> beyond some threshold of geekishness/incomprehensibility that marks it as
> for devs only?
>
the threashold is, that this is a warning about a function used in ebuilds to
use a certain eclass, which is even more ebuild stuff. And correcting ebuilds
is dev stuff.
No need for geekiness threshold - if it is about ebuilds and eclasses, it is
for devs. Heck, every problem/warning about an ebuild is for devs.
If there is a message for the user, it is usually very easy to recognize.
Stuff like: 'after updating package FOO to version X.Y.Z-r3 you need to
rebuilt package BAR' is obviously for you, the user.
I'm not reassured. I don't think messages among devs should share a
channel with messages to users without some explicit tagging. The stuff
you say is for devs looks worrisome to me because I don't really understand
it. I'd like something more clear.
++ kevin
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