Re: [Fink-users] Fink Feedback

[Yoav F. <y.m...@wl...>]

At 0:32 -0500 17/3/02, Erik Price wrote:
>On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 07:12  PM, Yoav Felberbaum wrote:
>
>>Maybe a similar system could be used with Fink? It MAY cause hassle 
>>for those using shell scripts, but then these people shouldn't be 
>>using unstable for shell scripts as it's buggy OR it's in their 
>>interest to see that package moved to stable ASAP (IYSWIM).
>
>I don't think this is a good idea... you don't want to make every 
>tool into an interactive nightmare.
>
>although another way to do it (using this suggestion) is to also 
>feature a way to turn this off automatically with an option, such as 
>[cmdname] --unstablecheck or something

*nods* Make it into an option that is only discoverable if you RTFM 
:) In other words, make them understand that this otion is there for 
a _good_ reason, and shouldn't be turned off willy nilly :)
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Yoav Felberbaum
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