On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:36:24 +0900 Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> And, conversely, adding identifiers to attempt to cover every > necessary possible configuration is always going to result in a > boatload of arcane terms with arcane semantics. (And you still have > the issue of engineering clairvoyance versus allowing sysads to wire > together custom one-off configurations.) > > You can't force simplification. Well, you can... Just have the program read six identifiers from the config file, and ignore everything else. So the question is: How much simplification do you want to enforce, given that the other side of the simplification coin is non-configurability? SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
