Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: > s. keeling wrote: > > > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is > > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user? > > Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from a severe form of > NIH. Everybody thinks other people's solutions suck, and their solution is > the solution to end all solutions. > > Of course, the upshot of this, and it's somewhat ironic considering the SCO > case, is that OS people are even more respectful of other people's code
All very reasonable, but this is Debian. Isn't it the X package manager's job to define/enforce some common guidelines? Ie., "Sure, go ahead and start up a dcopserver if you want, but that's down there in your stuff. Up here, in the standard Debian stuff which executes your stuff, this is how it's going to be done." That would respect others' ways of doing things, yet respect the user too who's the one who has to get it to work (and if he can't, they've wasted their time). I don't mean to oversimplify. It's just pretty annoying at times to have gone from good old .Xresources/.Xdefaults defines darn near everything to today's state of affairs where gahd only knows what controls how some app functions. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
