John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 16 February 2007, Andreas Jaeger wrote: >> > C) That the current mechanism hides the complexity of the process from >> > the user not providing good feedback as to what is happening. Maybe >> > this is ok, but when things go wrong most people don't know what to do. > >> Do you have an example? > > What color is the sky on your planet Andreas?
The original message was so foggy that I needed at least one ;-) > This list has been full of such examples. > > Virtually any time zen-updater coughs up an error and can not complete > the process most users are in trouble and have to start searching for > solutions, either on this list or via google. > > Just go to the archives and search on "updater" only in the english > list and only in the last 3 months. You will have plenty of reading. > > For a specific example of such a situation, considder: > > Who wrote the dreaded error message: > "Resolvable id xxxxxx does not exist." > That man needs a trip to the wood-shed. (It had to be a man, no female > programmer would be so arrogant or dumb as to leave no clue, and no way to > find a clue about what package required xxxxxx or how to fix the problem). Thanks, now I understand what is meant - and agree, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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