Re: Files which want to be different in different packages
Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: Files which want to be different in different packages"):
> [...]
> I don't see how your porposal [sic]
> [...]
> I don't follow how the system determins what TRT is
> [...]
> However, I read through your proposal quickly, and wasn't
> comfortable that I fully understood it. I haven't had time yet to
> go back through it more slowly. I'll try to do that tonight.
Next time please read messages and understand them before attempting
to comment !
> Elvis, the only vi clone for which I know the details, does use a
> symlink. I must have underexplained that. In the above, I was using
> "files" as shorthand to mean "files or links". I thought that would
> be clear from the context. Apparently, I was wrong. Sorry.
>
> I don't see how your porposal necessarily does less prompting than mine.
> Both detect a collision, and ask what to do about it, right?
No.
> In any case, I doubt that it matters much whether a package asks one
> question, or two, or three. The big jump is between zero questions
> for a package and one question for a package. If the package does
> ask one question, asking a second isn't that big of a jump.
My proposal in this area is intended to avoid having to ask questions.
> Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
> > [...]
> > If you want to discuss any situations that aren't sensibly supported
> > by the proposals I have made please go ahead: I think we'll find that
> > they will then require yet another `feature' of some kind.
>
> And I'd like to reduce the number of 'features' on the package admin
> tool, not increase them. [reference my earlier remarks about too many
> adjustments on the back of the TV set which need twiddling].
If we want to make the system deal well with new sets of complex
requirements it is inevitable that this will result in extra
`features'.
These `features' do not have be visible to the user in the way that
the knobs on a TV set are.
> My point of disagreement with Ian here is that I don't think the
> general solution we have now (the default behavior in the absence
> of any special-case handling) is a good one.
You appear to have completely missed the point of my posting. How can
you interpret a posting which says `here are some problems, here are
how I think they should be solved, and here is how I think the
solutions should be implemented' as a claim that the default solution
we have now is generally applicable ?
I claim that it is a good default, but I do not claim that it is
sufficient as the only possible behaviour.
Ian.
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