On Du, 12 oct 14, 10:30:52, The Wanderer wrote: > On 10/12/2014 at 10:07 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > Any program that requires additional scripting just to get it running > > is insufficiently advanced. > > > > (you can quote me on that) > > Part of the tradeoff for power is responsibility - both in the > responsibility to use the power wisely, and in the responsibility to do > things yourself rather than have others do them for you. But I'm also aware of the limits of my powers and don't try to do too much, but instead use the right tool.
> If you don't want the responsibility of writing shell scripts (or other > scripting), you will have to accept not having the power to do some of > the things you could do with such scripts. As well as avoid some of the mistakes I would (most probably) do. > If you don't want that power either, that's fine for you - but others > may not feel the same way. And I'm fine with that. It's just that others seem to think that simply because Debian is using a specific tool by default it will suddenly discard the alternatives. This is not how Debian works. As long as there will be people available to do the work in maintaining the alternatives they will have their place in Debian, just like file-rc, runit, etc. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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