Fwd: Re: Application duplication (was: Re: cdbakeoven)

[Neil Stevens]

On Saturday April 20, 2002 02:52, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> That you didn't get the irony in his statement :) Mom only wants to

Whose mother are you talking about?  Yours?  Please don't generalize like 
that.

> write a receipe and she doesn't care even for shortcut configuration.
> But as other people do, we offer the functionality in editors and much
> more to satisfy the 10% of the potential users who could ever make use
> of that, which is correct. The best tool for the users, please, but only
> one for each task. Being selective in which one to offer towards mom is
> the result to draw here. Everyone else who thinks this editor sucks can
> run kappfinder to look for others or look on freshmeat or apps or in his
> distro's installer to install another one in addition to use that one.

Oh, good idea!  Forget our happy users now, let's make them work harder so 
that we can appease some hypotheical non-users!

By the way, writing a recipe and coding are two different tasks.

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