On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> but this is /only/ practical if all (even disabled) features are visible
> (and selectable) in the tools. They are not at the moment, so selects
> are quite useful.
More importantly, some things that *are* visible probably shouldn't be, or
should perhaps only be in expert mode (aka "EMBEDDED").
A prime example of this is all the firewall settings. I'd personally
prefer to just select a "default firewall setup" which would be enough
for all the normal crud, instead of seeing 50 different choices.
And dammit, I'm supposed to be "technical". So if _I_ find it irritating
to have to select all those NF_MATCH_xxx/NF_TARGET_xxx crud things,
imagine what most people must feel like?
Me, I'd like to say I want "default firewall built in", and not have to
see *any* of the crap. And that's exactly why "select" is a good thing.
Not using select, and have people having to say "y" to the basic feature
and then y/m/n to each sub-feature is really damn annoying.
So thank God for the few selects we have, and we should add a whole lot
more!
Linus
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