On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:41:58PM -0400, James A Morrison wrote: > > 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. > > Too late, this already happens with a lot of packages :) If a hack isn't > good enough for upstream, but it's nice, it's good enough for debian. > > 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. > > Exceptional like having a Documents button added to the file selector? (I've > grown used to the buttons now.)
But a /tmp button would have been much more usefull. Friendly, Sven Luther
