[H-GEN] NetBSD install.

Martin Pool m.pool at pharos.com.au
Thu Feb 12 20:01:30 EST 1998


> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:33:55 +1000 (EST)
> From: Robert Brockway <robert at zen.humbug.org.au>
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> On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Jason Parker wrote:
> 
> > [1] : yes, yes.  I know that saying nothing on success is standard
> >       unix philosophy.  It did cause me a lot of grief though.
> 
> IMHO, rarely used utilites like disk partitions should say what they are
> doing even when successful.

I think a better heuristic is that operations with very serious
consequences should always be reported, although there should be a
--quiet flag.  This applies equally to GUI programs.

--
Martin Pool

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