Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?

["Thomas Beaudry" <tmbeaudry@msn.com>]

Maybe I could have phrased that a little better.  The message
I was replying to talked about not wanting it in Gentoo because
he dislikes it and always shuts it off in Mandrake.

I was just saying that that is selfish, to deny others a feature
just so he doesn't have to be bothered with a few minutes time
to get rid of it.

In otherwords, I was responding in the context he created.

Of course if a menu ebuild is implemented, it would be an op-in
just like every other ebuild under Gentoo.  I didn't think it
was necessary to point out the obvious.  Guess I was wrong.


>From: James Gibson <twistedhammer@subdimension.com>
>To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus?
>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:15:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I normally don't get involved in 'discussions' like this, but I will this
>time. I, personally, have no opinion on the menus issue, but I would like
>to address your comment about conviences..
>
>I believe that a large number of people don't object so much to new
>features that 'go against their view', as they do to _having to turn them
>off!!_ You want menus? By all means, implement it, but don't make me have
>to turn it off if I don't like it; Make it so that if I don't like it, I
>just don't enable it.
>
>adding new conviences that are on by default is exactly like opt-out spam;
>Just say No!!
>
>--James
>
>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Thomas Beaudry wrote:
>
> > Why??
> > Because it's a nice convienence.  And as you noted,
> > you can turn it off if you don't like it.
> >
> > I get tired of people objecting against features that
> > go against their view when they don't have to use it.
> > Too many people think the Gentoo (or any of the other
> > distros) should be the way they want it and no other
> > way.  If they don't want/use a feature, it's a waste
> > to put it in.  Never mind what anybody else might like.
>
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