Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, A. Khattri wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote:
> > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great...
>
> It works great, But the interface sucks.
What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping
statement.
The interface oh well..
What about it? What sucks about the interface? How should it be improved?
but what I dislike about etc-update (and it's
replacements afaik) is this tendency to want to restore files to their
original state..
Well - how *could* this be changed? I mean, those tools show the differences
between the "orignal state" (ie. the config file as shipped be Gentoo and
thus as the "OEM" normally ships it) and what you've got on your hard disk.
One keypress to many, one moment of not paying enough
attention an whee..
Well - be careful. As always with computers.
gone is fstab, XF86Org or some other important file.. I
really don't understand why the system doesn't have blabla.conf.dist files to
fool around with and leave it up to the administator to check of changes and
the like..
Because most of the times, the user expects a more or less working
system after having installed the program. That's why programs tend
to ship a basic configuration. And that's good so.
Yes I've been burned a few times.. and no I didn't like it..
I also don't like being burned. But I don't blame anyone else,
if I burn myself. It's just plain my fault and nobody elses.
Alexander Skwar
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Kissing a fish is like smoking a bicycle.
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