Good time of the day, hellekin.


On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 21:52:43 -0300 you wrote:

> Following the discussion on defaults and a couple of recent remarks
> from Jaromil regarding audio ("for professionals") and Franco's
> opinion to ignore new users and "focus on intermediate users", I'd
> like to make a point: if Devuan is supposed to incarnate the legacy
> of Debian (as is mentioned in the wiki: "We consider ourselves the
> actual Debian legacy." [0]), there's a simple truth that should be
> crystal clear to anyone on this list (pardon the pun):
>
> IT'S VERY EASY TO ADD SALT, BUT VERY HARD TO REMOVE IT.
>
> Moreover, if Devuan delivers a base distro that actually invites users
> to personalize it and share their preferences (popcorn with
> foresight), then users will understand that this distribution is
> actually about their freedom, and not just in words.
>
> The "user" is a deadly trap of an abstraction, and Devuan should
> simply consider that the "user" ranges from a 3-year-old kid using a
> computer for the first time without supervision to Donald Knuth, and
> provide a simple system to accommodate both with minimal effort (I
> guess you got my position by now: using devuan-sdk, 'seeds', tasks,
> blends, and a public repository à la Mozilla addons...).
>
> ==
> hk
>
> Reductionism is the art of focusing on the forces that fit a model in
> order to maximize the probability of an experimental result matching
> the theory. Complexity begs to differ.
>
> [0]: https://git.devuan.org/devuan/devuan-project/wikis/home

Thank you! Great!


Regards, Sthu.