On Wednesday, 29 October 2008 at 13:42, Brian Wheeler wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 14:34 +0200, shmuel siegel wrote: > > Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > I'm going to agree with the -1. > > > > > > Almost all of the "reasons" from the original email boil down to "we've > > > always done it this way". > > > > > > > > And what about the other reasons? > > > > There have been two reasons given for maintaining the change. > > 1) Your use case doesn't interest me. > > 2) We've thought of a way to accomplish our goal. There have been no > > responses to the question if other methods would accomplish the same > > objective. > > > > I'm still trying to figure out why there's all the love for X on tty7. > > Things change. We adapt. Having the primary interface on tty1 makes > much more sense than it being on tty7. On a semi-serious note, the tty7 > choice is a historical accident...not a design choice. > > OSS has been replaced. > Static /dev has been replaced. Which has the downside of losing devices I create manually upon reboot. > SysV init has been replaced. And there was much screaming. Custom inittabs stopped working. > IDE drives aren't /dev/hd* anymore. That was relatively painless if you used labels. > We're using LVM instead of raw partitions. Thankfully anaconda still lets you use raw partitions. Who said I need LVM? I don't see any advantages in using it. You forgot about NetworkManager, which still doesn't work right, 4 releases after it was introduced. Oh and PackageKit, which presents a different set of groups than what you can see in Anaconda. Regards, R. -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org | MPlayer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
