From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Humphrey van Polanen Petel <hpvpp@optusnet.com.au>
Cc: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: need hostname on menu
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:03:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e160f2b-ea30-f8f6-14fc-3a7b963681bf@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4b096da9-39c5-c74a-1e02-d517970d231c@optusnet.com.au>
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-24 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 0:52 need hostname on menu Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 0:57 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-24 3:32 ` Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 9:03 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2021-01-24 11:26 ` Humphrey van Polanen Petel
2021-01-24 11:38 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-24 9:28 ` Didier Spaier
2021-01-24 9:33 ` Didier Spaier
[not found] <6ecee3f7-3b00-4fba-8320-5c65a2549da7@QAD40071.mod.nl>
2021-01-24 8:45 ` J.Witvliet
2021-01-24 13:06 J.Witvliet
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