Network Manager, Firefox and more on FC10

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jan 9 05:59:46 UTC 2009


Jeff Spaleta schrieb:
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com> wrote:
>   
>> I've been a hardware and software engineer for over 35 years.  I've
>> never subscribed to the "build no mechanism simply if a way can be found
>> to make it complex and wonderful" mentality of many of my peers.
>> Obscurity rarely leads to good things, and just because something's
>> "new" doesn't necessarily make it better (is the /etc/event.d stuff any
>> more efficient or flexible than /etc/inittab?  I think not)
>>     
Agreed. upstart is in the same class of issues as NM, the *Kits and 
other "novelties" certain people are keen to advertise as "revolutionary 
feature".
> I'm not going to argue with you.   Part of the problem is we haven't
> had an organized server oriented interest group to step up and throw
> their weight around as a group during our development cycle. 
Another part of the problem is Fedora not having a functional "technical 
management".

Ralf





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