<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2013 11:56, Donald Stufft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donald@stufft.io" target="_blank">donald@stufft.io</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Arguably it's already broken. I've had to explain to a number of people that it won't cause their dependencies to install. I think its way more user friendly to tell them up front then to confuse them when it doesn't work or when it appears to work but they get an error from a -<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>You're proposing replacing "arguably broken" (by some definition) with "actually broken" (no longer works). That's not an acceptable trade-off.</div>
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Packaging is confusing enough without leaving foot guns littered through it.<br>
<div class="im HOEnZb"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Packaging is confusing enough without breaking people's stuff! (Replacing a foot gun with actually shooting people's feet off if we're going to stick with the metaphor...)</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Michael</div><div style><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im HOEnZb">
> On Oct 17, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Nick Coghlan <<a href="mailto:ncoghlan@gmail.com">ncoghlan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Don't break things when they don't pose an immediate security threat (and sometimes not even then) :)<br>
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