On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:17:01AM +0100, pk wrote:
> Yes, but... As I see it this is mainly a convenience to the programmer
> and no benefits to the users. Which, if I extrapolate, leads to todays
> "nice" GUIs/DEs that can sing and dance and includes the proverbial
> "kitchen sink".
> I use gentoo in order to decide for myself what I need and don't need,
> in order to maximise my benefit from a linux installation; that means I
> need to weigh the benefit of a certain function/app against the hardware
> requirements. If I add another thing that runs in the background
> (daemon) it does steal resources (however small) and it has to have some
> benefit to me in order for me to think it worth it.
Neil, Peter, Alan: Can we end this thread please? There's gotta be a
threefold repetition rule a la chess for mailing lists. It was fun when
each of you were giving your understanding (or lack of) on what dbus
is and how it works. But when it degenerates to a cycle of "finding
more examples to illustrate earlier point" and "telling other party to
read previous posts", you are really just generating phantom traffic
for the list.
So why don't y'all just take a deep breath, step away from the
computer, go and get some Chinese food (the New Year is tomorrow), and
try to remember to send flowers to your loved ones? I'm sure grumpy
somebodies are less fun to deal with than invisible grumpy geeks.
Cheers,
W
--
Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
