Excuse me but I submitted a real problem using this title. Amongst all your
rantings I am actually getting some helpfull advice.
If you want to conduct a flame war couldn't you at least change the title,
Thankyou,
Owen
On Thu, 04 May 2000, you wrote:
> "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > Maybe we do not want to do it, didn't you suppose that?
> >
> > This comes across as unmitigated arrogance and reflects poorly on
> > MandrakeSoft.
>
> I surely don't want to be arrogant [and think I am not, but well.. maybe
> misunderstood sometimes.. let me explain..]
>
> There are so many things that pass out there, sometimes people just look
> at message body and think "okay I don't think it's nice", and simply can't
> take the time to argue for that, telling why he does not want to do it,
> etc.
>
> I certainly don't want to be arrogant out there, considering how much the
> help of the persons of Cooker is precious.
>
> Excuse me if you felt I was, -- it's just that people always think their
> suggestions are reeeeally worth, and never suppose that maybe people don't
> think in the same way -- I wanted to point that: maybe we feel different
> about the suggestions.
>
> > > Can you imagine the reaction of the people if we make a "updatedb" at the
> > > end of install, blocking the system for 2-3 minutes.. When you wait and
> > > nothing happens, 150 seconds are really long seconds!
> >
> > Here is my reaction: I am investing a significant amount of time in the
> > install - another 3 minutes to run these commands is not too much,
> > especially if it would enable "a half-dozen useful/essential commands". All
> > you have to do is let me know what is occurring via a messsage on the
> > screen.
>
> Don't forget we are talking about "updatedb", not "rehash"!
>
> Why are you talking about not finding your favorite commands?
>
> You need it to get your lost files through "locate", well it's not as
> common as wanting to execute your favorite binary!
>
> > When, as a young boy, I was in a hurry, my father would ask "Would you
> > rather have it done, or have done correctly?"
> >
> > I would ask that Mandrake do it correctly.
>
> Sure. I still think that the best solution would be to launch "updatedb"
> as background task at first boot ; not to *block* the installer for
> something you certainly not use during the first seconds of your first
> login.
>
> Can you imagine logging in and within 2 seconds of time, asking yourself:
> "Hell, I'm wondering where exactly have they put the resource files for
> keymaps in this distrib?".
>
> ..
>
> --
> Guillaume Cottenceau
