On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 12:38:42PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited > > example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me > > a short, relatively straight forward and meaningful string (Which "Dynamic > > MMap ran out of room" is) over overly verbose "helpful" messages which > > take forever for the uninitiated to read over the phone. :P > > > No, "Dynamic MMAP ran out of room" is geek speak. It's not a clear message. > > "Insufficient memory: increase xxxx in apt.conf" is clearer. > "Insufficient memory: Add "xxxx:nnnnn" to apt.conf" is even better. > Can you prove or otherwise know that the only thing that can cause that particular message to appear is the lack of that setting in apt.conf? What I am trying to say is that there could be other causes of that error and misleading the user might not be the best way to handle it. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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