[arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity

[James Rayner]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at 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.

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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.

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James