On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 13:40 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > So you use the term "automatic" to mean that > the program should work without user intervention? > There are many programs of this kind, eg the kernel, > but they are not normally described as "automatic". It doesn't matter what you think the word means, the word means what it does. That it sorts out the behind-the-scenes mechanics of an operation by itself. I have no disagreements with your annoyance about its lack of useful documentation and error handling. It doesn't handle errors gracefully, such as notification that "automatic configuration hasn't succeeded, would you like to (a) try again, (b) manually handle things, (c) abort. Hopefully, not like the infamous abort/retry/fail of DOS. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
