On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 14:16, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Hans Reiser said on Mon, May 03, 2004 at 09:35:39AM -0700,: > > > credits. Actually, I think that requiring that the credits be > > equally prominent and retain their wording is quite flexible for > > that purpose already, but please inform me if you see an issue I > > missed. > > I'm *not* a developer. > > As a user, I will find it extremely inconvenient to be faced with a > load of messages *anytime*, boot, or whatever. >
As a systems administrator, I would have to agree with this, *especially* when I am trying to debug a problem. Perhaps a -q (or --quiet, or whatever your poison is) option should be included by default. Then a request could be made that the quiet option not be enabled by default by distributions. Two other ideas that I personally wouldn't mind. Insead of that crappy marketing stuff that some distributions use (I will refrain from mentioning names here.) perhaps a progress bar could be shown and we could read the credits for the various software packages. My other thought was a welcome, or first use, message of some type. When I install OpenBSD, the first login includes a welcome message which lists the software packages included in the base, some tips for where to start, and it also has a list of developers. Perhaps a welcome message could be displayed the first time that one of the applications is used (or it is displayed until the user disables that message). Tim Donahue
