On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:30:08 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: > Thorny wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:36:45 -0400, Miles Fidelman posted: [...] >> >>> Yeah, but it's a feature that's not well publicized and causes >>> >> confusing >> >>> behavior. >>> >>> Standard behavior, for years, has been to expect eth0 to be assigned to >>> a machine's primary network interface. udev's behavior is more than a >>> little counter-intuitive, and not well publicized or documented. You >>> don't really expect to replace a network card and suddenly have your >>> machine not be able to find the network. >>> >>> >> Well, it was covered pretty well in the release notes for Lenny. It is >> always a good idea to read the release notes for a new release previous >> to upgrading. Because I read them, it wasn't as surprising to me and I >> found the documentation sufficient. That was my experience. >> > That doesn't necessarily make it a good design.
True, "good" is a matter of opinion, however, it could be said that it was well documented, you just didn't read the documentation. It is a very difficult task to make sure that everyone who should read something actually does read it. I think that's why it's in the release notes and people are encouraged to read the release notes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
