On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:23:00 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 14. April 2013, 10:24:18 schrieb Ryan Hill: > > > > Personally I think that the entire idea of only displaying messages on the > > first install is completely asinine. What exactly is the benefit? Were > > users complaining that we were being too helpful and they'd like us to > > hide important messages in random places? > > No. They are just not reading it when the only new and relevant message is > drowned in repetitive spam. So the solution is to not display them at all? New messages won't be printed unless the maintainer uses REPLACING_VERSIONS, in which case you get exactly the same behaviour as now, ie. "drowned in repetitive spam". All this does is reduce the chance of the user ever seeing important information. If they happen to miss it the first time they're SOL. Are cosmetics really a bigger concern than keeping users informed? -- gcc-porting toolchain, wxwidgets @ gentoo.org
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