Interesting results, I'm glad you did this Alexander.  It's very
interesting to see how what everyone thinks is important balanced
against one another.

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Alexander E. Patrakov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  The "I rebuild often" and "I use the scripting feature of the PM" checkboxes 
> are
>  not correlated (-0.06). I find this strange and cannot explain.

Scripting is pretty useful even if you only plan to build once.  I
personally rebuild as little as possible, being only when something
breaks.  But being able to fall back on your exact options (through
the book or through a customized script) months later is borderline
essential for myself.  My brains don't like it when I try to remember
things like precise build instructions for some obscure package.

Scripting can be useful with or without the 'often'.  But sometimes a
rebuild might be something that you whip up out of the blue.  In my
opinion the independence of these two variables makes sense.  Having
scripting for frequent rebuilds seems like a bonus.


> 0.53: "I use PM to revert mistakes"/"I won't use PM that clobbers config 
> files"

I think I feel the strongest towards this statistic.  It's at these
times that I either loved or hated package management in the past.


Jonathan

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