On 01/02/2012 07:04 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:49:50 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
And now finally we have Zac, a brave man who has taken on the
thankless task of sorting the mess out. Most of his deep changes over
the past two years or so are to make things consistent within the
overall grand plan.
Stuff breaks badly when you do that. But it has to be done. Today it's
your turn to be on the sharp end.
I'm fine with suffering a little for the greater good, but is the new
behavior better in any tangible way?
It is reasonable to assume that the answer to that question is "yes". Any
other answer raises the question "why did Zac spend so much effort
recoding portage just to piss off the odd user?".
Hah! Many people here are probably employed in IT, software development,
or system administration where the job description can be summed up as
"unfixing things that weren't broken."
We all implicitly trust the devs with our systems, of course, but maybe
it was announced to little protest and that was reason enough?
