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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Cc: Palle Girgensohn <[email protected]>
Cc: Pierre-Emmanuel André <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Some restructuring of the download section
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 14:25:04 +0100
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The large bold warnings about the installers were added because they
>> used to be listed at the top of the page, above the platform-specific
>> packaging options (because they tended to confuse people less). It's
>> yet to be seen if users will become confused again - we have the info
>> they should need now, but I suspect that doesn't necessarily mean
>> they'll read it before emailing us. In any case, I think those
>> warnings should either be removed or made non-bold now.
>
> I wouldn't want to remove them at all, since they're clearly still correct.
>
> In fact, given the number of people I've run into who've had problems
> because of that, I'd rather leave them as bold as well.

Citations please? I don't recall ever hearing of people running into
such problems. I still maintain that it should be pretty blindingly
obvious that a graphical installer isn't an RPM or DEB - and that
being the case it seems like clutter on the page that is distracting
from the more important text that's there and will achieve little
except cause fewer people to actually read everything else.


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