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[David Caro Estévez <david.caro.estevez@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that is very unlikely, but I prefer to be too cautious than not
being enough.
In my opinion, it's very common for 'common users' do things very
unexpected... (I'm a sysadmin and I've seen users do a lot of strange
things :s. Have you ever tried to insert a RAM module upside down? And did
you succeed? Xd).

Anyway, I've spent more time writting comments than writing the code, I did
not expect it to get this much attention. Thanks for the feedback.
El 24/12/2011 02:10, "Jonathan Marsden" <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> On 12/23/2011 05:00 PM, David Caro wrote:
>
> > It's just an improvement, a kind of best practice. Usually when a
> > common user sees a stack trace, sge thinks that the program has a bug
> > and just stops using it, but if she sees a nice message telling her
> > that you need to install something, she will, at least, try to
> > install the missing package before giving up.
>
>
> True, but in practice, "common users" of Debian and Ubuntu, and indeed
> most Linux distributions these days, install clicompanion and other
> software as a package, using a package manager, and so dependency
> management is handled for them automatically and does not need to done
> manually.  Therefore, such users will never see this kind of issue.
> Experts compiling/installing from sources can probably figure out what
> the stack trace means.
>
> If you want to patch it, that's fine, but it's rather unlikely to ever
> be seen by a "common user".
>
> Jonathan
>
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