Re: Panther Hate

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From: Chris Ball
Subject: Re: Panther Hate
Date: 14:03 on 30 Oct 2003

On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 01:13:07PM +0000, Mark Fowler wrote:
> First up, the installer is stupid.  It keeps displaying random bars with
> random text.  Installing foo.  Processing foo.

It sounds like it's actually using ("Processing %s", packageName), which
gives us the HCI disaster of "Processing Korean" instead of "Installing 
Korean Language Extensions", etc.

Oh, and do we know what "Optimizing System Performance" *really* means?
I've heard two different explanations:

  * It means "I'm changing the file permissions on the stuff I just
    installed."
  * It means "I'm pre-processing dynamic link information for the newly
    installed dynamic libraries."

*sigh*

- Chris.
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Panther Hate Mark Fowler 13:13 on 30 Oct 2003
- Re: Panther Hate Chris Ball 14:03 on 30 Oct 2003
  - aglet 14:20 on 30 Oct 2003
  - Michael G Schwern 22:27 on 30 Oct 2003
- Piers Cawley 14:16 on 30 Oct 2003
  - Mark Fowler 14:25 on 30 Oct 2003
    - too deep to show
  - Tom Insam 15:35 on 30 Oct 2003
    - too deep to show

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