Well, yes-and-no. The end user (who in the case of many linux desktops and laptops is also the sys admin) may not be aware of how things are structured "under the hood", but they can perceive "laptop X spends a lot of time doing stuff when I turn it on, while laptop Y is usable almost instantly". The only reason I mentioned it (I otherwise try and stay out of "religiously" tinted discussions was that there was discussion about how to do it but no mention of what the important "externally visible" (if you don't like "end-user") goals should be.
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Kurt H Maier <khm-suckl...@intma.in> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:00:03PM +0100, David Tweed wrote: >> I'll just note that, regardless of code quality, etc, there's the >> question of what the end-user usability goals for an init system >> should be. > > No. An "end user" should not even be aware init exists. The people an > init system has to impress are systems administrators. > -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ high-performance computing and machine vision expert: david.tw...@gmail.com "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot
