Okay, I get it.

I defer to your decision.

Humphrey

We are but sheep and here to be fleeced

On 24/1/21 8:03 pm, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On 1/24/21 4:32 AM, Humphrey van Polanen Petel wrote:
>> Whether it is a trivial problem or not I am not qualified to comment on, but it
>> nevertheless seems to me that being able to identify at boot a systemby the name
>> by which it is know is of obvious benefit simply because mnemonics are most easily
>> remembered.
> I was not arguing this point. I was just talking about the development and maintenance
> effort.
>
>> And if you wish to call this a "rather exotic problem" then I would like to point out
>> that it is not up to the developers, but to the users to determine how they use their
>> system.
> No developer is telling you how to use the software, that's not my point but that someone
> has to implement the feature and maintain it and that person is the developer.
>
> So while the developer does not get to tell you how you use the software, he decides what
> he works on and what not. And if there is a feature that is requested by only a very small
> amount of users, then it usually makes no sense to put up with the additional development
> and maintenance burden.
>
> Adrian
>