Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Dec 17 20:48:28 UTC 2008
Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>>> package * is not installed
>>>> Where do you receive your notifications that your disk space is nearly
>>>> full, or that smartctl thinks a drive is dangerously near death?
>>> Guess where those notifications go? In /var/spool/mail/root. Guess
>>> who pops
>>> up a notification on my non-root desktop to notify me that my harddisk is
>>> dying? Nobody.
>> Ahh, so you've finally identified a problem that needs to be solved.
>> Unless you think the distribution should cater only to people who don't
>> care if their computers work or not?
>
> A problem needing fix was identified at the beginning of the thread. Except
> that you insist on keeping the broken status quo.
>
> Things like hardware notifications can much easier be done using HAL and D-BUS
> than using local mail.
...and cron still needs to be patched.
How's this, when I get a popup notification that the output from my cron
jobs is going to /dev/null and would I like to install an MTA please and
thank you, *then* I am okay making sendmail not a hard dependency :-).
...and these sorts of notifications ought to be provided by something
that is very hard to remove. As in, --nodeps, or at least taking out
something whose name makes it blindingly obvious that you're removing
something important.
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Matthew
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