On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:28:59AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: > That inventing your own numbering is a problem manifests itself in bugs > like this: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145#c21 Okay, I can see that. Still, I wish there were a greater attempt to maintain similar naming where possible. This sort of churn is expensive. > Well, the page says "high-level UIs". The GNOME3 UI certainly doesn't > expose the interface name anywhere, does it? It does if you click around enough. And I haven't tried Gnome 3 on a system with multiple ethernet cards, but I would hope that _somewhere_ it would tell me which was which. > But I guess we simply have a different definition of a user here. Your > definition is probably closer to what the page calls "admins", which is > covered by the next lines in the feature page, which you didn't paste: Right. For Fedora, developers and admins are an important subset of users. > "As biosdevname is installed by default ... most administrators won't > see this either. " If the new scheme really is better, we should suck it up and make the whole change. It'd be better to do what we can to make that transition easier -- like using similar names were possible -- than to have a weird mixed state. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
