On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 21:53, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > ... it gives me doubt. Really, since ever that this feature has been > > proposed or requested on this list, it was opposed and said to be not > > the right way, and now that it is implemented in what was said to be the > > right way, it should not be applied, even in experimental ? And then, > > redhat has had this feature for years, altough implemented differently, > > so is there some hidden agenda here ? > > Sure, it's a good feature to have in a debian system, very useful and > all. But the way I see it, this could lead to debian packages becoming > developers playground, with maintainers (and others) adding feature of > the week randomly into unstable packages, just because they find it > useful. > IMHO, debian is more about packaging than about coding per se. Such a > feature should go upstream. Now, it may be decided that proper shutdown > at logout is essential for debian to have. But it should stay relatively > exceptional.
That's with attitudes like that that Debian can't get any decent integration at the desktop level. --- Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
