yum-presto not on by default

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Sep 25 12:20:21 UTC 2009



On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:

> I suspect there are detailed studies on this done by usability
> researchers, somewhere out there. of course, there are tensions; it's
> hard (well, impossible) to design a complex interface with defaults that
> are correct for all uses by all users. but you have to take into account
> the tendency for people not to discover useful but non-necessary
> enhancements that are not enabled by default, when you're deciding on
> your defaults, and try to accommodate it where this doesn't lead to
> egregious horribleness.

And the 'egregious' is the part I have a problem with.

Worst case scenario - someone doesn't like updating as much.

That's the WORST case.

hardly egregious.

-sv




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