https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=289983 User mack@ifis.cs.tu-bs.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=289983#c14 --- Comment #14 from Thomas Mack <mack@ifis.cs.tu-bs.de> 2007-12-05 06:03:49 MST --- Yes, no problem. I'm involved in Open Source projects, I'm involved in reporting bugs, and everything takes quite some time from other work. I found enough bugs in OpenSUSE for now, I did not even find the time to report all of them, which costs quite some time normally, if I take it seriously. But if I see others don't find the time to fix the bugs, I don't get motivated to report them. I can't work on tracing bugs and fixing bugs both in so many different parts, where I do not even have the idea of which package they are from. Removing working toolkit options from libXt is even more 'major' to me as are the missing man pages from all kde programs right from the start of the KDE project or not being able to run twm and kde alternatively. No, I did never report on the missing man pages: I can neither write all of them, nor do I see a chance to convince people not even seeing the necessity to deliver man pages right from the start of the project. So, if there are not enough resources to uphold the Unix-basics in Linux, then I cannot resolve the problem. I would like to stick to Unix-like systems, so if there are other distributions beyond (Open-)SUSE that keep the Unix-basics more up then (Open-)SUSE, they will be an alternative. It's a design decision of SUSE what they emphasize more and what less. And I do see the point, why it is said to be a 'minor' problem. But I do have different preferences. SUSE does at least not have the preference to deliver a major bug free system. The preference is in 'innovation' or something like this, which IS a good thing also. And the preferences are for a nice window-ish single user desktop etc., which is ALSO a good thing. And which I can enjoy as well. But we can currently hardly abandon major Unix basics here. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.