>
>> What group of idiots came up with a system where instead of having all of
>> the configs in maximum of two places (/etc | ~/.config) have now spread them
>> out across five completely separate directory trees?
>
> The group is called "The Linux Userspace API (UAPI) Group", and according
> to their home page, it consists of from people from Ubuntu Core, Debian,
> GNOME OS, Fedora CoreOS, Endless OS, Arch Linux, SUSE, Flatcar, systemd,
> image-builder/osbuild, mkosi, tpm2-software, System Transparency,
> buildstream, BTRFS, bootc, composefs, (rpm-)ostree, Microsoft, Amazon, and
> Meta.
>
> You are free to disagree with this design, but please don't call the people
> behind it idiots. I am pretty sure there are plenty of very competent
> people who have given this a lot of thought.
I do tend to reserve my contempt to the few cases where it is appropriate.
But seriously, after 30+ years of working with various systems from NeXTStep to
Windows to VAX, this all smacks of people who haven't learned anything from
history and/or haven't spent enough time managing more than a few systems in
one or two contexts.
"A lot of thought" in an echo chamber still has the same result, only worse.
It reinforces itself without any real basis.
So now they're suggesting going down a road we've been down before. More than
once.
Therefore, "idiots."
Sorry, but repeating history when nothing about the underlying situation has
changed will never be smart.
--J
