[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Six non-Gentoo installs

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2014-10-15, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:39 PM, Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-10-15, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The main problem (imnho) is that you think CentOS cares about
>>> configurability/multiple ways of doing things.
>>
>> Oh, I don't think that -- it's pretty obvious that in the RedHat
>> world, choice is not an option.  It's one prix fixe menu, and you can
>> either eat what's set in front of you or go hungry.
>
> I can see the potential benefits of that.  It sounds a bit like the
> whole convention over configuration approach.  As long as the
> convention works, it does greatly simplify things.

The main benefit is it makes the support scripts far simpler to write.
The sooner you can get to "I'm sorry, that's not supported", the
sooner you can hang up and "handle" the next customer.

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