On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:50:07 +0200 Sebastian Pipping <webmas...@hartwork.org> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Taking any of it out would be > > removing things that are required to determine the cause of a bug. > > I doubt that's true in most cases: The information needed to > finding the bug is a (possibly small) subset of the whole.
Yes, but the computer doesn't know which subset it is, just like it doesn't know which subset of emerge --info is useful. There's nothing in there that's never relevant. > I don't see how additionally providing a stripped down version of > paludis info hurts anybody, as the subset either holds what the > wrangler needs or it doesn't, in which case they can still request > more information for the reporter. Or we could just provide the information the wrangler will need straight away. Much easier. > I suggest that you take this as a usability request from the users > of your software. Isn't that a great chance to make several people > happier every day in the future by just a few lines of code on your > end? Would they raise their voice if it did not matter? This isn't a usability request. Making the "use paludis --info cat/pkg" text stand out more was a usability request, and I was happy to make that change. This is a few noxious trolls whining in an attempt to cause trouble. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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