Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!lear!hallett
From: hallett@lear.steinmetz (Jeff A. Hallett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Init Manager, please
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Date: 14 Dec 87 17:15:18 GMT
References: <338@spectrix.UUCP>
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Reply-To: lear!hallett@steinmetz.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Hallett)
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In article <338@spectrix.UUCP> jmm@spectrix.UUCP (John Macdonald) writes:
>The following request may be for something that is already being done
>at Apple.  I hope it is.
>
>I would like to see an Init Manager.  It should be able to run a
>dialogue that I will call the Init Chooser.
[...Various comments about such a Manager...]

Raise Shields!  Lock Phasers!  FIRE!

This is exactly what we DO NOT want.  It is this "let's install this,
and that..." garbage that has made DA's and Fonts such a complete pain
and what makes Suitcase so wonderful.

INIT's are great in that to activate them, you put them in the System
Folder.  To deactivate them, you take them out.  It is that simple.
To do anything else would be a level of abstration and complication
where none is needed.  This is the way DA's and Fonts should've been
in the first place, but Suitcase fixes it.

To change the order, change the name; they are executed
alphabetically.

To paraphrase a quote:  "Ineet Managers??  We don't need no steenking
Ineet Managers."

Cease Fire!  Evasive Maneuvers!

I apologize if this seems unnecessarily harsh, but it is something
that I (and probably quite a few others) feel strongly about.

Jeff

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