From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone else having a problem with bash?
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 18:01:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150712180107.25b7315b@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mnu60i$u2c$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 19:52:34 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > It is with shells as with editors: Whatever is the default,
> > quite a lot of people will not be satisfied with it.
>
> I disagree. It should work out of the box. People can change it later.
>
> Having it not work at all is just stupid. The good way to write
> software is having it work and let people customize it if they want.
> Shipping it in a broken state is not good.
I agree. Being able to customise is good, but the defaults should be
sensible and appealing to new users. Zsh suffers from the same problem as
KDE, good software let down by poor defaults, although Gentoo's setup for
Zsh is better than upstream's.
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Neil Bothwick
Do I BELIEVE in the Bible?! HELL man, I've SEEN one!!!
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-06 17:01 [gentoo-user] Anyone else having a problem with bash? walt
2015-07-06 17:18 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-07-06 19:07 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2015-07-06 20:43 ` Alex Thorne
2015-07-06 14:09 ` Bill Kenworthy
2015-07-08 4:44 ` Jc García
2015-07-08 5:00 ` Anton Shumskyi
2015-07-08 7:00 ` Alan McKinnon
2015-07-08 9:06 ` Florian Gamböck
2015-07-08 9:28 ` Stephan Müller
2015-07-08 10:08 ` Florian Gamböck
2015-07-08 10:13 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-08 10:40 ` Florian Gamböck
2015-07-08 10:53 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-08 0:48 ` walt
2015-07-08 7:15 ` Florian Gamböck
2015-07-08 13:10 ` Todd Goodman
2015-07-08 13:46 ` Florian Gamböck
2015-07-08 10:17 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-08 10:29 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-09 11:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Stephan Müller
2015-07-09 11:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-09 12:01 ` Gevisz
2015-07-09 12:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-09 12:20 ` Gevisz
2015-07-09 16:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-09 17:45 ` Gevisz
2015-07-09 17:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-09 23:34 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-09 23:36 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-09 23:54 ` wraeth
2015-07-10 5:29 ` Franz Fellner
2015-07-10 8:16 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-10 15:00 ` Gevisz
2015-07-10 17:39 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-10 22:18 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-11 10:22 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-11 10:39 ` Marc Joliet
2015-07-11 20:56 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-12 16:52 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-12 17:01 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2015-07-12 22:35 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-11 5:53 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-11 11:04 ` covici
2015-07-11 20:47 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-13 9:21 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-13 9:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2015-07-10 6:06 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-10 6:18 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-10 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2015-07-10 15:31 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-13 9:39 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-13 14:00 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-13 15:03 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-13 9:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-13 13:55 ` Martin Vaeth
2015-07-13 14:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2015-07-09 12:19 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-09 12:24 ` wraeth
2015-07-09 12:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2015-07-09 14:46 ` wraeth
2015-07-10 11:46 ` wraeth
2015-07-11 22:21 ` walt
2015-07-09 12:41 ` walt
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