On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:57 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:14:35AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:00:20 Patrice Dumas wrote: > > > Will there be a way to short-circuit the announcement and just update, > > > like it was possible before? > > > > No, as that is a very poor end user experience. Here I've got 40 updates, > > without a clue as to why these updates exist and why I should use bandwidth > > to pull them down. Updates without announcements / reasons is just chucking > > grenades over the wall. > > In my opinion it really depends on the package and on the update. Sometimes > you want to do annoucements, some time it is just a loss of time for the > packager to do it and for the end-user to read it. So I think it would > be much more efficient if it was possible to skip it. Of course it should > also be easy to do a nice announcement. >From the point of view of the person maintaining the user visible update tool, users *really do want to know* this information. And I get bugs filed about the fact that Extras packages don't currently have this information available. Jeremy -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
