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[Maât]

Le 04/10/2010 17:51, Tux99 a écrit :
> Maat, I must say that if this kind of excessively overcautios (and   almost
> paranoid of users) attitude is prevalent among most/all Mageia leaders then
> I don't see much of a rosy future for Mageia.
>   
Perhaps you are wrong to consider this as "overcautious" :)

And wrong to prognosticate a bad future for Mageia :)

> What is the point of making Mageia a user-friendly distro if you are so
> afraid of users?
>   
/me being involved in Mageia should have been a strong clue :o)

Seems you have missed it :)

I am not afraid of users and Mageia active members or contributors
aren't either.

=> Perhaps you should try to consider that these arguments are not
dictated by fear :)

=> Perhaps you could event try to consider that those "overcautious"
points we consider are thought with the greater good of users in mind :)

> Then we might as well make a geeks distro and we can be sure no noob will
> be bothering us.
>   
You missed the point. We learned from past that packagers and users
interaction is not something so simple to deal with

In fact communication between humans is never simple :)

So there it's something here we really need to anticipate. Debian (that
i truly love) or other (considered as) elitist distros don't bother with
those subjects: users have to match the skills and education level
requirements or end "naturally" rejected (they go away by themselves).

We don't want this because Mageia IS thought to remain as user friendly
as possible. Considering that there is no problem there and letting
forums and lists flood each other would be a dramatic mistake. And
that's just hiding yourself the obvious imho :)

So i respectfully but *totally* diagree with you on these points :)

Maât