Joerg Schilling wrote:
> For the cdrecord installation that currently comes with Solaris, Sun
decided
> that cdrercord should not have a default device. Sun could have told
cdrecord
> to behave the same way as cdrw does, by just adding
>
> CDR_DEVICE=cdrom0
> into /etc/default/cdrecord
> Also note that it is not my fault that Solaris currently comes with a
> missconfigured /etc/security/* setup. I did send the needed setup for
> cdrtools to the integrators and I don't know why this has not been
> allowed to become part of Solaris.
So file a bug. This sounds much more like an oversight than a formal
policy decision.
But, if cdrecord *is* smart enough to discover all the cd/dvd devices on
the system, it should also be gracious enough to figure out what to do
if there is only one device found.
Apple has a set of user interface guidelines; one of them says that the
applications should not expect users to remember information that the
application can figure out for itself. This is exactly one of those
situations.
Expecting the user/admin/integrator to figure out what device was
installed so that they can edit a config file to hardcode that data
seems to violate just about every nuance of that guideline that I can
think of. Maybe we could learn something here.
-John
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