On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 03:22:09AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > Aside from your opinion that combos B,C, and D > are redundant or inferior to E, what are your objections > to allowing the amanda user to make their own flexible choice.
I have no objections. It is just that - implementing redundant methods feels like waste of work. - having redundant methods makes things complicated, which in turn tend to attract bugs. - having redundant methods makes configuration complicated, which might be the cause of additional error-proneness. When it comes to security, things should be kept as simple as possible. Complicated things tend to get error-prone. Errors in security-relevant functionality is not what we really want to have. IMHO, E should be implemented anyway, so E stands for the least possible complexity. Since the functionality of the other methods can be achieved via E, adding those methods raises complexity. Oh, I forgot to mention: everything I wrote is IMHO, of course :-) -- No software patents in Europe -- http://nosoftwarepatents.com -- Josef Wolf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
