On 01/02/2012 03:50 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:55:19 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
New behavior: user error permanently breaks your world file.
It is not permanently broken, that implies it would stop the system
working. It is merely damaged, and repairable. It may take a little
effort to repair, but that will help you remember to be more careful in
future.
No one has offered up a way to fix it yet, or a downside to the old
behavior.
Making your software punish its users isn't going to make them more
careful, it's going to make them stop using your software. If bash did
an 'rm -rf /' when you mistyped a command[1], would you think, gee, I
need to be more careful? Or would you think the guy who made it do that
was an asshole?
[1] There is distro that does this, even though it's an extreme example.
