Re: I hear you...
* Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> [011127 17:14]:
> > Any other recommends, how to reduce the quality of debian?
> RedHat sucks is not a technical argument. We have each (Debian and RedHat)
> been willing to steal good ideas from the other in the past, and I don't
> see any reason to reject ideas simply because of their source.
The point is, that this is no good idea. Read the mailing list archives.
It was discussed that often. Having scripts to parse is ugly, slow and
tends to generate errors.
If someone want sane result-values from init.d-scripts and put an
package with priority optional or extra causing the generation of
colorfull or even graphic, I have nothing against this.
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.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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