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Re: [opensuse] Adding repo
- From: Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 13:02:14 -0500
- Message-id: <200702101302.15596.suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sat February 10 2007 12:55, Robert Lewis wrote:
> As far as the leading or tailing slashes are concerned it amazes me that
> the SUSE folks haven't written the code such that it could be entered
> either way. Parsing the line as entered by the human and assembling
> it to the expected input is something a first year computer science guy
> can do
> with ease. I think it's called human engineering. Perhaps this can
> be considered for the future.
That's why it's called "Open Source" ;-) Give it a whirl!
OTOH, a reasonable argument can be made that it makes sense to "strictly"
enforce an exact format. Think of the damage that could be done allowing an
incorrect installation source? <shiver!>
Carl
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> As far as the leading or tailing slashes are concerned it amazes me that
> the SUSE folks haven't written the code such that it could be entered
> either way. Parsing the line as entered by the human and assembling
> it to the expected input is something a first year computer science guy
> can do
> with ease. I think it's called human engineering. Perhaps this can
> be considered for the future.
That's why it's called "Open Source" ;-) Give it a whirl!
OTOH, a reasonable argument can be made that it makes sense to "strictly"
enforce an exact format. Think of the damage that could be done allowing an
incorrect installation source? <shiver!>
Carl
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