Re: silent installs

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> So the question really is whether to make their life harder for
> making your life easier.
>
> I'd like to know what other libtool people think about this, so
> feedback appreciated.

I think that some people are hypersensitive to seeing build text and 
that changes to behavior should be well-reasoned and based on the 
typical user/developer rather than a hypersensitive one.  In the USA 
we call this using "community standards".

The install step is one of the most dangerous things that I do to my 
system and so I often do 'make -n install' and study what is going on 
before doing the actual 'make install'.  The thought of requesting a 
silent install has never crossed my mind before.

Bob
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