From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:32:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875y30j8gi.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87il70dog3.fsf@gmail.com>
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
> All in all, I guess my position is unchanged: despite the potential for
> surprises, automating and enforcing these configs provide benefits that
> outweigh the cons, in my experience/opinion.
I concur.
In light of efforts to reduce cognitive overhead, I think it is a good
idea to automatically use the default configuration. Contributors can
opt out, but I prefer not to have to think about yet another important
piece of configuration here.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-21 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-19 14:36 Re-evaluating the practice of automating user configuration Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-10-19 15:04 ` Tomas Volf
2023-10-21 14:46 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-21 14:45 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-10-21 15:32 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2023-10-21 23:44 ` Tomas Volf
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