Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:56 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: 
> I wonder if I am alone in finding some of the developments in Fedora-16
> actually make life harder for the user?
> 
> I'd take grub2 and systemctl as two examples.
> In each case I've read the documentation and understand the motivation
> behind these developments.
> But I remain unconvinced that the gains outweigh the disadvantages
> of methods that are much harder to configure and use.
> 
> I don't think this is just a matter of unfamiliarity.
> I think one can say objectively that the new methods
> are more complicated than those they replace.
> 
> As a crude measure of complication the new commands
> take longer to type than the old,
> eg "systemctl start openvpn at client.service"
> compared with "start service openvpn".
> 
> And the output of the new commands seems much more verbose than the old:
> eg compare the output of "systemctl -a" or "systemctl list-units"
> with that of "chkconfig --list".
> 
> Could anyone bringing in these changes have honestly answered "Yes"
> if asked whether the new method would simplify life for the user?
I'll say this. I recently went to read the grub2 documentation and found
this product rather obtuse and complex. As an example trying to figure
out the camparative roles of grub2-mkconfig and grub2-install.
One would think that grub2-install wold have to run grub2-mkinstall but
as far as I can see it doesn't. How confusing!


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