* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070509 10:15]: > Users who have better things to do with their time than pore over boot > messages, including me, don't care about boot-time output unless something > fails; and if anything the current default verbosity of our boot scripts > makes it *harder* to see failures through the noise. Changes that make it > easier to distinguish, at a glance, between a fully successful boot and a > boot failure are a *good thing*; they decrease the irrelevant data and > increase the accessibility of information.
Changes that make it easier to destinguish are a good thing, while changes making it harder to distinguish are a bad thing. And I think the change in discussion makes it harder to distinguish, as humans are better at coping with errors than humans are. The main problem with all coloration and graphical output is that it can only show problems anyone expected. The old Debian scripts output was quite uniform and thus anything out of the row was easy to spot and look what it is. Now some scripts tend to introduce colors and one gets totaly disrupted looking at it. And there is nothing more ridicule than seeing some large red "FAILED" after a message telling everything succeded. Or some message indication critical failure followed by a large green OK. (Which I almost always saw on every colored output I looked at). When one even only see the messages and status reports the scripts actually want one to see, one cannot even see that the scripts failed to catch the actual results. Perhaps it also depends what you consider your computer to be for you. If it is a tool, then it should start as fast as possible and not waste cycles showing me graphics, hiding information and thus makeing impossible the only useful task while waiting for the machine up, namely to take a look after the health of the machine and/or learning what actually happens at startup. And by the way, showing the user how many useless things start at install time can only be a good indication for them to think about deinstalling most of them. Hiding how many unneded daemons lurk around only contributes to bloat. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]