On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, I got blasted today with an 88 package upgrade on one of my machines, and this one really stuck out: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/lighttpd/trunk/lighttpd.install?revision=4866&view=markup
I don't even know what is important anymore, so I just stopped reading as I'm sure most of our users do too.
1. *Please* use optdepends for things like: * mod_webdav : libxml2, sqlite3, e2fsprogs * mod_cml : lua * mod_magnet : lua * mod_trigger_b4_dl : gdbm * mod_mysql_vhost : libmysqlclient
2. Showing me these optional things every single time I install is stupid. Use optdepends and educate people to use -Qi.
3. If you are going to do an install message, at least indent it right. Why the heck was everything tabbed over here?
4. Don't keep one-upping every other install message to make sure yours looks important. The number of ++++++++>>>>>>>>> and ===========> and --------------> >> >>> !!!L#K!J#KL:!#KL:@#:%HKL: is getting out of control.
======================================== Was about time it was said, it's annoyed me a bit too.. like the extra formatting. Btw, why do some people persist on manually line wrapping messages... any decent terminal and text editor can wrap without any problems. ======================================== James