Hi,

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Avi Kivity wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >   
> > > I think passing only the directory name is better because it can be like
> > > a "black box" : the user don't have to know how it is inside.
> > >     
> > 
> > I consider this a super downside.
> > 
> > "If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it [your
> > software]."
> >   
> 
> I don't consider myself an idiot, yet I get annoyed when software forces me
> to learn its implementation details.

Maybe you missed my point.

If the user executes "qemu -c bla/config", she might get interested in 
looking at that file, and find out that it is easy to modify.  That is 
definitely a benefit worth having.

Ciao,
Dscho



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