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Somewhere on Shadow Earth, at Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 09:42:56AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > If I recall correctly, the dialog box that pops up doesn't ask you
> > anything, it only tells you what needs to be done.
>
> That's the part of the problem that the original hate was about.
Exactly! That, and the fact that it kept popping up, every time you hit "OK".
> > I guarantee
> > there'd be a lot more posts to this list about the installer if it
> > automatically quit your apps without asking.
>
> Popping up a dialog that included "yes, go ahead and quit it for me" as
> an option would have defused the hate. Having an "installer" for iTunes
> is meta-hateful.
Again, just so! In the old days (pre OS X), if a program couldn't/shouldn't be
running while the update happened, the updater would ask, "Would you like to
quit XYZZY so the update can proceed?" Polite, but helpful. Now the updater is
neither.
And yes, I agree with another poster that needing "software installers" at all
is hateful, but this hate was for one specific bit of hatefulness.
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Timothy Knox <mailto:tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx>;
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door,
screaming, 'Take me, take me!'"
-- Carl Jacobs, from alt.sysadmin.recovery
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