On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 07:33 +0000, Jos? Matos wrote: > On Thursday 05 March 2009 01:58:40 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I don't question any of that, in fact it's clear to me that I won't be > > testing the thing myself, but I think my original point is being missed, > > to wit: would it not have been useful to include a brief summary of what > > the package is about so those of use who are not interested can know > > we're not interested? > > Some (if not all) of those issues have been discussed on this list since the > beginning of kde-4.2.0 testing although the resulting explanation was not as > detailed as it happened on this thread. The very first reference I can find to either soprano or sesame on this list is Rex's message. Perhaps you can point out some earlier discussion here? > So why should the same explanation be repeated over and over? Because it hasn't been said before? > If you are questioning the methodology (as it seems you are :-) ) If you think that, you haven't been paying attention. Go back and read my original message on this. > the answer is that this is not usually a problem. When someone ask for further details > those details are given as this thread proves. :-) I *know* I can ask, I *know* I can Google, I *know* I can use "yum info". All I'm trying to say is that all this exchange could have been avoided by 2 seconds thought before making the original announcement. I wasn't even lambasting Rex particularly, just using his post as an example. As my original message said, this is something that happens elsewhere as well and I was making a general point. Cheers poc
