Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo installed, thoughts

[Luke]

On Mon, 13 May 2002 17:46, James Vandenberg wrote:
> This is what Luke at Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:30:21PM +1000 wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 May 2002 13:50, James Vandenberg wrote:
> > > This is what Luke at Mon, May 13, 2002 at 11:53:42AM +1000 wrote:
> > > > Youve spent a lot of time thinking about the details of your system,
> > > > without answering one simple question.
> > > >
> > > > Why is this needed?
> > >
> > > For one very simple reason. It makes life easier for system
> > > administrators, users, and maintainers.
> >
> > No, it wont.
>
> <Pantomime>
> Oh, yes it will!
> </Pantomime>

Hehe... it wont tho... its just another thing to learn, with all its own bugs 
and idiosyncracies.

> > > An example is with Inetd/Xinetd. These two programs have the same
> > > function, but wildly different configuration file formats. Now how
> > > should the telnet daemon be installed? Should it give an example of how
> > > it should be installed in inetd syntax, or xinetd syntax? So if it
> > > tells me how to install telnet into inetd, but I'm running xinetd, it
> > > doesn't help me as much as if it were in xinetd syntax.
> >
> > Learn one. Use it. Go on with your life.
>
> Which one?

I dont bloody know! Whatever you think is good! I dont know which is better 
out of mplayer or xine... I just chose one. If it didnt do what I wanted, Id 
try the other.

> What if I want to use one that the maintainer of a package hates?

The maintainer of the ebuild? Who cares what they think???

I just think that wanting to write (or more likely, wanting someone else to 
write) a big complex tool just so you can swap back and forth between inetd 
and xinetd on a whim, is a little bit silly.

-- 
	Luke