On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 01:10:50PM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > I agree, the idea of cute little graphics showing up next to the > start/stop of a package makes me ill just thinking about it. Even the > Redhat 6.0 way with it's green "OK" or red "Failed" made me ill because > it supressed the errors when something failed. Sure, it LOOKS nice for > the enduser, but the boot sequence is where you NEED to see what's going > on if you need to troubleshoot a problem on boot. I wouldn't mind the color personally, if I could still see the errors when something doesn't work--and once again I could turn it off if I didn't have (or didn't want) color. -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux developer GnuPG: 2048g/3F9C2A43 - 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 PGP 2.6: 2048R/50BDA0ED - E8 D6 84 81 E3 A8 BB 77 8E E2 29 96 C9 44 5F BE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every company complaining about Microsoft's business practices is simply a rose bush. They look lovely and smell nice. Once a lucky company dethrones Microsoft they will shed their petals to expose the thorns underneath. A thorn by any other name would hurt as much.
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