On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> wrote: >Marc Haber: >> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. >> >I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my life way easier. > >If anything, IMHO using words like "bizarre" isn't exactly conductive >to rational dialogue …
If we actually plan to release a distribution where a central piece of software behaves contrary to its documentation, "bizarre" seems quite logical to me. Right now, we have an init system that has something named "runlevel3", which makes people say "Yeah, finally a concept that I am already familiar with" and then find themselves stymied when this "something" does something quite different from the something we used to know as "runlevel3". Same goes for a something for which its documentation says "non-graphical" with another something called "graphical", with no visible differences between those two things' behavior, a system running X. This is only a mild nuisance if everything is fine, but if a system dies when X starts up, not having a clear way to prevent X from coming up is bad. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1xufo0-0006iy...@swivel.zugschlus.de
