my thoughts on package management

[Robert LeBlanc]

At 13:20 2003/07/24, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:12, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>
>I find these conversations on mailing lists a bit frustrating, because
>some people will join in and be very vocal about their specific needs,
>which may or may not match what 99% of people use.  [not focusing this
>at Rober specifically, but in general].   How can we, as possible
>contributors to the new Red Hat Linux Project, really get a feel for
>what the majority of people want?  If only the most vocal come to the
>mailing lists, or bugzilla, and make their specific needs know, won't
>the silent majority be ignored?

The trouble, I suppose, is that unless you take a stab at defining what the 
silent majority likes/wants, people posting to mailing lists like this one 
won't know ahead of time whether their wishlists are "already spoken for" 
or "clearly in the minority".  Trying to do that would just ensure that you 
get no useful feedback from anyone, since the ones who see their views 
already represented in your list won't feel the need to say anything, and 
the ones who *don't* see their views represented will get the impression 
that their views aren't welcome.

 From my perspective as an old-time sysadmin, I find it hard to imagine 
that I'm truly in the