On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 17:39, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> [011127 17:14]: > > > Any other recommends, how to reduce the quality of debian? > But one of the advantages of debian, with which I could persuade many > people to use Debian - many of the important advantages are not that > visible that you can persuade people with it - is the robust and > very fast boot-time. > > And these colors do not only look and feel unprofessional, they are also a > large risk, as they tend to overwrite important output or because > an wrong positive output in large colors gives an clueless user the idea, that > it started correctly and the problem is somewhere else. I would very much like to second this. Should a feature be installed, just because it is useful? Adding features increases complexity. I am not a very good programmer, but a skilled user and above average system administrator. Ease of use and easy to understand scripts and processes is what I look for in an application or an OS that I wish to use. I think it should be possible to state one day: this OS is so good, stable and easy to use, that we now refrain from modyfying it. ``If it ain't broke, don't fix it.'' If it does the job reliably, don't improve it I might add. Each maintainer and developer is of course free to do whatever they want regarding the complexity of their packages, but I would like a general discussion as to whether Debian should strive to be "feature rich" or "simple, robust and easily maintained". -- Lars Bahner, http://lars.bahner.com/ Nihil est sine ratione cur potius sit, quam non sit.
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