Florian Weimer:
> > I exposed these two options in Postfix configuration using the
> > existing names and semantics, so that users would not need to learn
> > different names with different semantics. Humans have better things
> > to do than riding bikes with a reversed steering mechanism.
>
> Except that these flags have never been exposed as /etc/resolv.conf
> options in any implementation, as far as I know. They were targeted
These options were programmatically asserted by Postfix prior to
an incompatible change, and the least that I could do was to present
users a way to reinstate ONE OR MORE of these options in the rare
case that my change broke their system.
There was no need to invent new concepts here, just provide the
user with the already documented mechanism of RES_THIS and RES_THAT.
Instead of inventing my own reversed bicycle steering mechanism.
The length of this silly thread shows that I feel strongly about
user interface aaspects.
Wietse
