Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:16:34 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, cokane@cokane.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC Message-ID: <nospam-1145492194.03926@iliad.gbch.net> In-Reply-To: <20060419235752.GA19865@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20060419040716.4F26116A45F@hub.freebsd.org> <20060419095207.GC19339@wjv.com> <44462C07.4030903@centtech.com> <444634C1.9080206@centtech.com> <346a80220604190746n69a74a67te58599f743312cab@mail.gmail.com> <20060419234343.GG28496@spc.org> <20060419235752.GA19865@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On 2006-04-19, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:43:43AM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 10:46:09AM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > > > My point is that we should let our purist values get in the way of others' > > > enhanced experience using the system. > > > > My view is: We take the patch, as long as it doesn't interfere with > > the internal machinations of rc too much. > > > > There are good aesthetic and functional arguments on either side. > > Given the excellent work on rc to date, we have clean abstractions > > in rc itself, so fitting colour-aesthetics in does not have a high > > maintenance cost. > > I agree with this line of reasoning. So long as things are kept > modular and don't cause maintance headaches when working on the > internals I'd like to see this sort of work encouraged and encorporated > into the tree. While there's something to be said for console output > that shows everthing there's also something to be said for console > output that only shows whats actually important. Giving people room to > explore other options could yeild something much better than what we > currently have. Perhaps the default setup, while having all the pretty stuff turned off, could include one or two lines as close to the bottom of the output as possible that simply listed the new options so those who wanted them would know how to get the features and the rest of us would be gently reminded of what we were missing without damaging the output that we prefer. Greg
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