-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: >> >> If you think lsusb is important or not important for installcd, please >> help explain why. > > Seriously, wtf is your problem? Why do you keep challenging the > decisions made by release engineering, first on bugs and then on the MLs > when you don't get your way? Chris is the head of Release Engineering, > which means he gets to make the decisions relevant to the install media. > He's been doing it a long time, and there have been very few people that > have disagreed with what he does.
I actually tend to agree with Chris's decision in this case, but it certainly shouldn't be frowned upon if a user wants to raise a question like this to a broader forum. For all we know 75 users will post stating that for whatever reason they found having lsusb available was useful in their installs. Now, I consider that unlikely, but if for whatever reason it turned out to be the case we'd all be better for knowing about it. The mailing list post was pretty matter-of-fact and wasn't posed as a troll of any kind. An issue was pointed out, the pros and cons were pointed out generally, and opinion was sought. Sure, release engineering will end up making the final call, but they're obviously going to want to make the install media the best it can be - with the obvious compromise between size and usability. I tend to think that they have made the right decision already, and I'm sure that they'll make the right call if for whatever reason the mailing list discussion brings up anything important that wasn't considered. And if it does bother you that somebody posted this question on a mailing list just ignore it - most threads like this die out with only two responses. Few of us have paid anything for gentoo, so to some degree we need to be happy with what we get, but I'm sure most devs are happy to at least try to give the customers what they want when it doesn't cost anything. In this case there is a cost, so just point it out in a friendly way... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHEoflG4/rWKZmVWkRAtqQAKCxKfRohiecN6RAMNXqq72dguYM1wCggDzP TIaQpJgCqguCJ92mderUJQs= =c2+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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