On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:03 -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > Onno Benschop wrote: > > From a usability perspective I would feel that you're changing expected > > behaviour for existing users. I also note that there are no active > > aliases in my current (Edgy) installation, and that the ones there are > > commented out.
Hum. What about a meet-in-the-middle approach? On a new Linux install, we add a new question, in the line of "how good are you with Linux?" If the user replies (i.e., selects) "not good at all", then .bashrc is set with aliases like tar --backup, mv -i, etc, together with a comment blurb stating that this is being done for protection or whatever. This way old hardened hands like myself will not be surprised when a tar -x does not replace what I expected to be replaced; at the same time a new Unix user will not get needed files replaced by old copies. No matter what, it will be difficult to get everybody happy here.
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