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		afavour on Feb 16, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Homebrew 4.0.0 They really aren't. If a package is downloaded 100k times and fails 1k times it's a very different issue than if it's downloaded 1k times and fails 1k times.

storoj on Feb 16, 2023 [–]

IMO installation failures are equally bad, no matter if they happen in 1% of cases or in 100%.

afavour on Feb 16, 2023 | [–]

Well, you're wrong. If you have 10,000 packages and 1,000 of them are failing it's clearly useful to be able to prioritize which to fix first.

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