On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 07:55:52PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Very rarely != never. If you put an /etc/locale.gen file which is > different than the default one before installing locales_2.2, dpkg > will still prompt about it. Which will bite a few people running older versions of testing or unstable, not anyone running stable. > We are supposed to minimize the number of questions. If we can go from > "very rarely" to "never", that's already a gain. If we can make every > Debian user to save five seconds of time and we have one million users, > that's five million of saved seconds. A _milllllion_ users? I would be very surprised to find us anywhere near a million users; I would guess 100,000 at most. There's a rule in programming about finding what's slow before optimizing. If you can cut off a half second on dpkg's install/remove time, you'd save me 600 seconds a year, and the average user probably that five seconds every year, adding up to much more savings that complaining about this. (And you forgot to subtract the 1000 people on debian-devel who each wasted a minute or two on this thread.) Cut a second off of mozilla's load time, and you'll save millions of users a couple seconds a day. Heck, fix something that's frustrating and time-consuming. This just makes me hit enter, or diff it and hit enter. I much prefer stuff that makes me hit enter, then stuff that makes me go WTF? > I never asked for a debconf interface (I explained in the bug report > (#110980) a possible way to do it and it would take just a few lines > of shell scripting). I just asked following policy. And making it a conffile but not is a huge improvement? > What's wrong with following policy when it says configuration files > for which there is not a default which satifies almost everybody > should not be managed by the conffile mechanism? > > If the maintainer thinks policy does not need to be followed here, why > does he not propose a policy change? If policy and interpretation > differ aren't we supposed to change one of them? Because it's a very minor deviation from policy. Policy wasn't meant to be chains; it's meant to be a way for us to build a consistent well-designed OS. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg
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