Linked by Jussi Pakkanen on Tue 17th Apr 2007 18:20 UTC
Let me begin by telling you a little story. Some time ago I needed to run a script at work once a day. We had tons of machines ranging from big Unix servers to Linux desktops. Due to various reasons the script could only be run on a desktop machine. However using cron was disabled on desktops. All other machines allowed cron.
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Yep, that's pretty much the same point I was making: whenever possible, it's preferable to simplify / fix the underlying system - rather than trying to protect/shelter users from it. The ideal IMO is to have an underlying system which is well-designed/transparent enough that it doesn't need to be hidden from end users.