Re: How to suppress the annoying warning message for gmc??

[Daniel Lyddy <daniell cs berkeley edu>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:

> root should be treated as fire, you can use it, but right.

Exactly, exactly, exactly.  Rather than stopping folks from doing what
you believe are stupid things, you warn them.  If they persist, you
ASSUME THEY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING and let them continue.  If they've
heard the warnings and think they understand the consequences of their
actions, then you allow them to turn off the warnings, and not answer
"Are You Sure?" a million times.  The user may have a problem or may be
in a situation that the developer would never have thought of in a
million years.  And if it turns out they really *were* doing something
stupid, at least they learn.  Don't you agree that learning is generally
a good thing?

I cannot stress this strongly or frequently enough: THE USER IS MASTER
OF THE MACHINE, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  Belief in this principle is
one of the main philosophical differences between Open Source OSes (like
Linux) and proprietary ones (like Windoze).  Let's not, in our rush to
beat Windoze, turn around and become their clones.

Dan
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