On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:31 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:20 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > There's a bunch of other reasons why "install XYZ when detecting ABC" is > > a really bad idea (useless prompts asking "ABC was detected but you need > > XYZ to drive it" or "to install XYZ enter the ROOT password"). Again, I > > urge you to examine a non-OEM version of Windows. > > That was always how I would assume it would work. Of course it shouldn't > install software without asking the user first. A pop-up saying 'you > should probably install package XYZ to use your ABC' is clearly the only > sensible way to do it. > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > I think David is saying that all these popups is a problem, not a solution. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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