On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 16:32 +0000, Nelson Batalha wrote:
> You're very much right. Only I didn't demand anything cause right now I 
> don't the time to learn python and submit, I was just replying to the new 
> emails. Never crossed my mind to demand anything from a oss project :P, I 
> just wanted to know if it was ok&feasable.

Just for clarification, I never thought you were demanding anything.  As
for your idea, it is definitely feasible, but not something I would
*ever* want to implement.  As much as you say it would be useful, I see
it as a waste of *my* time, because it will encourage people to fiddle
with their caches, and those people will be coming here, asking for
help/support.  What this means is that so long as I not only develop,
but also *support* catalyst, I won't add anything that provides Release
Engineering with no additional useful functionality but only serves to
reduce my own availability for working on actual bugs.  As much as I can
see the needs of the casual/one-time user, I'm not designing a system
catered to them.  I think catalyst is too high of a learning curve
already for a casual/one-time user, so I'd rather teach them the "right"
way to go about using the tool if they have to do that much learning
already.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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