Re: Run-levels (was Re: httpd servers do not conflict at each other (?))

[Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com>]

David Starner wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:03:32AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> >   another somewhat related config option would be for various
> > alternatives to ask if they should be the default one, I mean I
> > installed quite a few terminal emulators and now one random of them is
> > x-terminal-emulator (probably the one I installed last)
> 
> I remember my first Debian install, with Hamm.
> 
> blah blah blah window-managers blah blah
> Would you like to make twm your default window manager? [Y/N] N
> ...
> blah blah blah window-managers blah blah
> Would you like to make olwm your default window manager? [Y/N] N
> ...
> blah blah blah window-managers blah blah
> Would you like to make olvwm your default window manager? [Y/N] N
> ...
> blah blah blah window-managers blah blah
> Would you like to make icewm your default window manager? [Y/N] N
> 
> and so on, for every single window manager. (I guess the task I picked
> at the time installed just about every window manager in Debian at the
> time.) It was the single most annoying thing about the Hamm install for
> me.

  well, it might be annoying but it's not going to break your system.
besides the task could have had one list with radio buttons where you
would pick up one, it's just a matter of implementation.

> alternatives are designed so the best general purpose tool rises to the
> top. If it matters, fix it manually, which is designed to be simple and
> easy.

  quietly replacing another program (possibly quite different) possibly
breaks the system, at least partly - like the x-terminal-emulator thing
that does not support required options for debian menus (text).

  now it's true that I can fix it but the question is, why should the
installation break the system?

  also, I don't want to have the generally best program forced on me (or
anybody else). the fact that it can be changed later does not matter.

  and. of course, the terminal emulator that does not support options
that debian uses should not be used as one of the x-terminal-emulators,
that just does not make sense.

	erik