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felix@×××××××.com <felix@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:19:09PM +0100, Nelson, David J wrote: |
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>> Do we want a UNIX standard? A linux standard? A Gentoo standard? A lowest |
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>> common denominator standard? A "what most people prefer" standard? |
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> I am not talking about which colors to use, which is a personal |
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> preference and can have no standard. |
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Yes, you are talking about that. |
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> I am talking about the most |
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> basic principles, that all programs behave the same and can be enabled |
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> or disabled in the same way. |
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That's not true. |
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> When gentoo unilaterally decides to do |
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> the opposite, it sticks out like a sore thumb. The proper way to add |
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> color to emerge and its affiliates would have been with an alias, as |
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> it does with ls, not by adding hard coded escape chars to messages, |
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> nor by defaulting to color enabled and adding untested non-functional |
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> control features to disable it. |
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Well, as said before: Chaning to a black/white color theme would probably |
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create quite some uproar now. IMO it's simply too late to change that. |
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BTW: I also don't see a need for changing the default. |
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> There are programming standards too. They include, at the most basic |
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> level, testing new features to make sure they actually work |
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That's what ~x86 (or any other arch) is there for. I guess nobody |
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found a problem, so it made its way to stable tree. |
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> When there's an upgrade to the basic commands, like /bin/ls, it is |
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> only reasonable to assume it is a useful upgrade. |
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In how far is /bin/ls critical for booting the system? And why |
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do you blame other people for your faults? |
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> numbers, simply do not listen to old farts who file bug reports. This |
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Fine. Then don't file a bug report. And also do NOT complain, because |
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not filing a bug report means, that everything is fine. |
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> has been from years of experience with coworkers and with mailing |
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> lists. |
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Are you always like this? Maybe it's the way you approach people, that |
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they do not want to listen to you. |
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> My rant here has been to let off steam. I am not going to waste time |
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> filing a bug report |
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Fine. Then don't complain. Or rather: Complain about the failures |
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YOU do, like not compiling ls statically, like not filing bug |
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reports, etc.pp.. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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