On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:30:50 -0500 C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xtfx.me> wrote:
the sources of error are likely not a thin smear of software that, imo, makes the entire experience much better and enables fine-grained access control ... i mean group perms are nice and all, but they are incredibly coarse, and over the years have forced all sorts of odd/convoluted application hierarchies + access patterns to cope.
unfortunately, error sources are probably human, ie. stuff isn't being launched/ran/used properly.
Its not easy for the user to keep up-to-date with the stream of changes that pour in until one day you update and a deprecated method is busted. A thought that just occurred to me is for these kind of updates to be segregated so that you can see them and research the procedures needed to implement them safely.
Also reminds me of this morning's xorg-xdm bug report I wrote which made dbus on a system level necessary, all of a sudden... Things go on like this and I'll remove my Xorg and run frambuffer only from now on. :-)
doubtful ;-). im a professional sysadmin too ATM (though, i'm traditionally an applications developer, and am trying my hand at larger scale administration), and honestly, i'd like to see dbus and other tools that enhance discovery/transparency/communication/free-time embed themselves like a tick in everything possible.
this would be fantastic EXCEPT a lot of the new inclusions break things, hence this thread. mick