On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Martín Cigorraga wrote:

Hi Thomas,

In fact I agree with you. If we start adding one 'feature' after another we will end with a *buntu system in the near future. List, please forgot my mail, thanks.

Whats wrong with adding features?

@Madhurya: actually I was ironic about that - please note I didn't wanted to talk bad about *buntu-land, I myself get started in GNU/Linux thanks to Ubuntu. Of course adding features isn't wrong, but I used that word to name an automatic process that goes straight against Arch's spirit if implemented at a core level, and only realized that after reading Thomas reply - see this link please [0]. There's a direct relationship between automation and simplicity: you can't get both at the same time all the time. While an automatic system don't have to be complicated per-se, it *will* take away your freedom and control over the processes it executes again going against Arch's way. One ot the things I like most of this distro is the plenty space it gives the user to do virtually anything while remaining ultra poweful and easy enough to use without stumbling with too much low level tasks in your daily use. Personally I *allways* backup before any important/huge update/upgrade. Anthony's proposed solution is cool, but until that finally arrives I think that creating a simple script and putting it in the path will be enough to backup kernels (also you'll need to add manually the menu entry to whatever boot manager you use). Regards, -Martín [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way