Steve Lamb wrote:

>     Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating?  The often cited
> example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing.  Give me
> a short, relatively straight forward and meaningful string (Which "Dynamic
> MMap ran out of room" is) over overly verbose "helpful" messages which
> take forever for the uninitiated to read over the phone.  :P
> 
No, "Dynamic MMAP ran out of room" is geek speak.  It's not a clear message.

"Insufficient memory: increase xxxx in apt.conf" is clearer.
"Insufficient memory: Add "xxxx:nnnnn" to apt.conf" is even better.

-- 
derek


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