On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:35:23PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > "Michael Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I see no reason to imidiately switch everything to eclipse-ecj and > > gcc-4.0 when it hits debian. We live from freedom of choice and mono > > cultures are bad. > > We've talked about this some before, but I'll put in my two cents here > for "choice is ok, but sometimes too much choice is bad". The > difficult thing is defining "too much choice". People are often > worried about choices, especially in cases where a "wrong" choice > might cost them invested time or money. And they are even more > worried when they don't have the tools or knowledge to evaluate that > choice as well as an expert could. > > One of the reasons Ubuntu has been successful, IMO, is that there are > fewer choices to make. Experts have made them for you - although if > you are an expert yourself, of course you can 'fix' any changes that > you don't care for. > > This is about investing money, but the psychology is relevant: > > http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/thefewer.html > > So what do I think "too much choice is bad" means for Debian? Well, I > don't think we should exclude anyone. We aren't Ubuntu. On the other > hand, perhaps it would be sensible to pick some "good defaults" and > encourage them, while making sure that it's easy for those who wish to > do so to swap them out for their own choices.
We had this discussion before. And I still think that your conclusions is good for commercial distris but bad for Debian. Michael -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
