On Sun 19 Jul 2009 01:39 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Matthew schrieb: > >What if the post_upgrade() message gives the users the sed command to run? > > Seems kind of pointless. > > >Who cares about the users? Arch has been a distro that is made the > >way the developers want it, not the users. The users just reap the > >benefits of all the developers hard work. It seems as if more devs > >care about the users, especially the new users. We get lucky if you > >(the devs) listen to us. So what if we loose 50% of the user base? > >Does that really matter? > > What the developers want, at least me, is not spend the next two > weeks being bitched at because philosophy forbids us to change a file > automatically. > > >Back in the day, the devs got their way. They listened to user > >input, but more times than not they did what they wanted. They > >didn't give a squat about the users. IMHO this was one of the > >qualities that made arch great! And know it is disappearing. > > In fact, it is not disappearing. I'll just listen to what you said, > then ignore it and get it my way. I beat you with your own logic, how > nice is that? Haha. Yeah I just don't want packages to be messing with my configs behind my back. Post a message with a sed command, or a .pacnew file, or something. Don't do it without letting me have that control. That's rude.
