Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 10:06 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > This is not a technical issue at all. It is about breaking user > expectations by breaking conventions.
No, this is about breaking YOUR expectations. But what former SunOS 5.6 users expect is not necessarily what other users expect. I expect programs to use my real home, regardless of whatever crap could have been put in the environment (and there are really too many things that fiddle with $HOME incorrectly). > Is it OK for Debian to break user expectations? This question can be turned around against you in the same way. > I believe changing XAUTHORITY from default is part of the same upstream > problem. Moving XAUTHORITY was part of avoiding issues on network homes. > Although that change can be claimed to be within the limits of > the documentation, bug reports like http://bugs.debian.org/614972 > clearly demonstrates that it breaks user expectations. Thanks for pointing to this bug, which shows that user expectations are not necessarily “XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority” but “my X server is accessible from the outside provided I have the permissions”. Which was solved in a much better way than just going back to the previous set of bugs. > There seems to be an upstream problem here which goes a lot deeper than > a few weird defaults... To me this looks like a classical change management problem. Just because we did things in a certain way for 30 years doesn’t mean this way is best. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1348764073.21951.90.camel@pi0307572
