Re: boot banner project

From: /dev/null (null_at_dnswatch.com)
Date: 04/29/05

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    Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 01:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org

    > 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!

    "And that's everyone likes in BSD's"
     WOW! Were you elected Official Spokesperson for everyone? ;)

    >>
    >> 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.

    See my opinion of your deciding to decide my opinion above. ;)
    I might also add that if it is *your* opinion that it should not be
    added. Then I would suggest to you that you simply *not* add it to
    your own installation. In short; an addon is simply that - an addon.
    You don't like it? don't add it. :)

    No "sour grapes" here. Just felt the need to chime in.

    -Chris

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