On Mon, 19 May 1997, Brian Mays wrote: > This is why changing the default prompt for everyone is not a good > idea. You guys can't even agree on what you want the new prompt to > be. And if you want my personal preference, any prompt longer than > '$ ' is too long. If I want to know what directory I'm in, I just > pwd. > > Instead of arguing back and forth about this new prompt, please do > something constructive. Build a "Debian 4 dummies" package, which > includes your favorite prompt along with all of the other nice > defaults that you wish to include. Add a sentence in the package's > description that says "If you are new to Debian or Linux, this package > comes HIGHLY RECOMMENDED." > > Of course, there will be some technical details with the > implementation of this package that will need to be ironed out, such > as how to get PS='<your favorite prompt>' into /etc/profile, but I'm > sure that these will be minor. If you want to get fancy, you can also > add to this package some useful scripts for configuring a Debian > system that no Unix "real man" would need or want. > > I believe that the newbie-friendly defaults should be collected in one > place and not scattered across many Debian packages. If they are in > one package (or a small number of packages), it will be easier for us > to define what the Debian newbie-friendly environment is and to plan > what we want it to become. I especially believe that these defaults > should be optional. > > Remember, the user should configure her system, not deconfigure it. > If she must spend time and effort to rid her system of somebody else's > nifty configuration, then IMO we're doing it wrong. >
I think that this is the kind of thinking that is killing Debian. 1) Newbie setting doesn't mean annoying settings. 2) `real men' like you can change those settings. 3) Configuration packages is an awful idea that goes against the idea of package. A better solution would be a system setting that packages would check an install the apropiate default. 4) We aren't building a distribution only for us. Let's stop being so narrow minded... We need a little of marketing... We need to be known as an easy distribution for newbies... -- Nicolás Lichtmaier.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
