On 16 Aug 2002 11:10:53 +0100 Adam Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One huge snip later - > which is fine, but this is different from > your concept of Mandrake abandoning the (good) Linux design philosophy > and going to the(bad) Windows one. You've picked my up wrong on this point, and re-reading my mail I see why - my fault. I'm not for a second suggesting that 'Mandrake' are abandoning the Unix design philosophy... apologies to any Mandrake ppl who picked me up that way. I do however see a lot more moves recently by people putting together packages who are restricting choices because they believe that a single choice is the best one for all. People who are fighting to copy Windows because that's what users want and expect. I like the idea of the new rpmdrake breaking the tasks out into clearly distinct functions, I hate the idea of having to get to it via a desktop environment menu system (given that my window manager has it's own hand carved menus :-( More of the packages are making assumptions about my environment that are wrong, the assumptions apply to the 'default mandrake install' and work will for beginners - but they break on my highly tuned system. People assume that if I want to run one package that I also have a whole lot more installed.. Even if those additional packages are only needed for a tiny portion of the functionality provided in the first package. > > Very good and interesting post, though. > > Oh, please fix your reply-to header; it should point at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] when posting to this list, I nearly just > posted this to you and thus broke the list's flow. (/me suddenly > realises he's never checked he follows this rule, and madly hopes that > he's practicing what he preaches...) Fixed ( I hope :-) > -- > adamw -- Chris Higgins Horizon e: chris.higgins at hts.horizon.ie tel: +353-1-6204900 fax: +353-1-6204901
