On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:59:17PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > That would help compared to doing nothing, but many people who complained > in the first thread (this is the third one, by the way) was k.org users > who used a machine somebody else installs the software for them. Messages > during installation would not help those people. I think this can be generalized to "messages from the maintainer of your systems". In the case of single-user installs, a message from the package maintainer is appropriate. For a multi-user system, I would expect a message from the admin to all of the users of the software. > This is arguable. People would have get annoying messages thrown into > their mailbox from their cron jobs, even before the switchover happened, > which effectively means that we move the whining period from now back to > the beginning of the deprecation period -- it won't reduce the amount of > actual whining. Personally, I would rather have my task succeed with a little extra spew to stderr than to fail completely. And that would get the people who were against the change involved in the discussion at a much earlier point. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
