On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 08:36:25AM -0600, rhys wrote: > > > > > >> 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
Rhys, this mailing list is covered by the Debian CoC. Calling anyone names is inappropiate, so either cease doing so on Debian resources or stop posting at all. -- tobi
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