Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: James Gibson <twistedhammer@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:21:58
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.44.0207251402080.2611-100000@camero.fantasia.tld
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? by Thomas Beaudry
1 I normally don't get involved in 'discussions' like this, but I will this
2 time. I, personally, have no opinion on the menus issue, but I would like
3 to address your comment about conviences..
4
5 I believe that a large number of people don't object so much to new
6 features that 'go against their view', as they do to _having to turn them
7 off!!_ You want menus? By all means, implement it, but don't make me have
8 to turn it off if I don't like it; Make it so that if I don't like it, I
9 just don't enable it.
10
11 adding new conviences that are on by default is exactly like opt-out spam;
12 Just say No!!
13
14 --James
15
16 On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Thomas Beaudry wrote:
17
18 > Why??
19 > Because it's a nice convienence. And as you noted,
20 > you can turn it off if you don't like it.
21 >
22 > I get tired of people objecting against features that
23 > go against their view when they don't have to use it.
24 > Too many people think the Gentoo (or any of the other
25 > distros) should be the way they want it and no other
26 > way. If they don't want/use a feature, it's a waste
27 > to put it in. Never mind what anybody else might like.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? Jon Nelson <jnelson@×××××××.net>