On 16-05-13 21:27, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Wouter Verhelst's message of 2013-05-14 03:22:14 -0700: >> On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: >>> Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? >>> >> >> No. >> >> The goal of Debian is not to be "simple". While we should document >> things as much as possible so that the interested can learn how things >> work, in no case should we ever avoid doing the technically sound >> because it is "difficult to understand". >> > > One could argue the opposite: making things hard to understand is > technically unsound because it compromises the ability of engineers to > understand and change or fix it.
There is a very wide gap between making things "hard to understand" and making things simple enough so that "nearly anyone" can understand it... I believe that the latter is at least as bad an idea as the former. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/519724d6.80...@debian.org
