error

[Michael T. Richter]

On Tue, 2006-25-04 at 18:55 -0400, Me - Atlantic wrote:

> I've made this mistake myself... Looking in synaptic for goodies, see
> the "Updates Available" light come on, and hit it to get the updates...
> Happens to everyone at least once...


Sounds to me, then, like a better system has to be put into place to
handle the lock file, doesn't it?  (That would be one of the core tenets
of good user interface design: if an error is commonplace, fix the user
interface to either render it impossible or render it not an error.)

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