On 23/06/10 02:06, Dan McGee wrote:
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Thomas Bächler<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 22.06.2010 17:42, schrieb Dan McGee:
This is the last thing I will say on this. Where the heck were you
guys 11 months ago? Surely not following development, but you want to
piss about it now.
Discussion:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/008965.html
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/008968.html
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-July/008970.html
Patches (with no feedback, mind you):
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2009-August/009193.html
I do read pacman-dev on occasion, but not regularly, and I don't follow
each patch thread or new feature. I heard that the Architecture option
was coming, but was never too concerned with the details (just random
happiness about it) - I didn't even know it would be an option, but
thought it was just default behaviour.
I even discussed the issue with Xavier I think, maybe it was Allan, it's
too long ago.
If you read my emails, you will see that I did not complain a single
time, but rather wanted to know what the reasoning behind this decision
was (which I'd still like to know btw).
OK, I lied about no more replies becuase I did forget to put this in
my original email- the primary driving reason from my point of view is
"If you do nothing, nothing changes". e.g. for anyone not adding this
to their pacman.conf, they won't have to worry about this feature
getting in the way.
With that said, I do realize this would not inhibet most people to be
turned on by default, but I think we saw this as a precautionary
measure rather than something we should force on people. I've CC-ed to
pacman-dev; if I end up being in the minority on this then I'll take a
patch to make the default be "auto" (and we will then need to add an
explicit "none" option and document it).
That will not be happening in the 3.4.x timeframe anyway and there will
be plenty of time before 3.5 to hear how this feature is used by people.
Allan
