[Mageia-dev] mageia sound tasks

Sat Dec 18 15:47:41 CET 2010

+
+Quote: Ahmad Samir wrote on Sat, 18 December 2010 15:30
+
+> That's exactly what a ML is for, parallel discussions each ideally
+> contained in a thread of its own; that's what I was pointing out.
+
+Sure, I was just suggesting an alternative in case this ML becomes too
+high-traffic, I guess we all know that high traffic MLs are not very
+efficient, posts get lost in the noise.
+
+> To put things in perspective, here's what Michael said:
+> "And secondary, I think we should also try to avoid having too much
+> task-
+> rpms. Their values is in the fact they allow to quickly install a set
+> of
+> rpm without searching in the whole set of rpm.
+> 
+> If there is too much of them, people while end searching in the
+> various
+> task-* rpms, and that seems counter productive at best.
+> ( ie, searching the task rpm they want to avoid searching rpm they
+> want
+> directly ... )."
+> 
+> Doesn't look dismissive to me, he stated rather clearly why he's
+> against having too many task/meta packages.
+
+I consider it very dismissive and furthermore the argument that too many
+task-rpms are confusing is pointless (one more task rpm doesn't mean too
+many and who is to decide what's too many, how long is a piece of string?)
+and very dismissive (a volunteer and new poster offering to do something
+that other users will appreciate immediately get's confronted with the
+exagerated argument that what he wants to do will cause too much
+clutter...).
+
+Anyway, like I said I think we should be following more the principle of
+'live and let live' rather than 'lowest common denominator' here.
+
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