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Re: silent installs
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Bob Friesenhahn |
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Re: silent installs |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:23:30 -0600 (CST) |
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Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
So the question really is whether to make their life harder for
making your life easier.
I'd like to know what other libtool people think about this, so
feedback appreciated.
I think that some people are hypersensitive to seeing build text and
that changes to behavior should be well-reasoned and based on the
typical user/developer rather than a hypersensitive one. In the USA
we call this using "community standards".
The install step is one of the most dangerous things that I do to my
system and so I often do 'make -n install' and study what is going on
before doing the actual 'make install'. The thought of requesting a
silent install has never crossed my mind before.
Bob
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