Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:53:19 +0400 From: Toxa <postfix@sendmail.ru> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot banner project Message-ID: <20050429005319.GA17799@laptoxa.toxa.lan> In-Reply-To: <4270E7F1.9010502@kutulu.org> References: <57436.216.177.243.42.1114582155.localmail@webmail.dnswatch.com> <426FDE69.8090909@samsco.org> <426FE1EA.7020900@kutulu.org> <20050428105348.GA8056@laptoxa.toxa.lan> <4270E7F1.9010502@kutulu.org>
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 09:41:05AM -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > > 1) It is far from a stupid idea if even one person honestly feels it > would be a benefit. No need to be abusive about it. Yes, I have to mention this was only my humble opinion. > > 2) If I were to choose to work on FreeBSD, I would be free to work on > whatever I felt was lacking. That's how it works. Especially given > that I have nowhere near enough skill in C to work on more complex > system-level issues. Yes, you can do whatewer you want. But what about the result? I think several hundreds lines of lolypop-boot-related code will definitively NOT bring FreeBSD more cleaness and design simpleness. And that's everyone likes in BSDs! > > 3) I was merely making suggestions as to what alternatives were > available. Since almost every Linux distro does something similar to > this proposal, there is obviously SOME merit to it; the benefit may be > miniscule, or irrelevant to many people, but it still exists. > See my opinion above. It's a bad, BAD style, to add features till then they're really necessary and desirable. IMHO.
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