There's a quote from the GNU Shepherd manual I really appreciated: > I decided to not make it too sophisticated by trying to guess what the user might want jus

There's a quote from the GNU Shepherd manual I really appreciated: > I decided to not make it too sophisticated by trying to guess what the user might want just to theoretically fulfill the request we are processing. If something goes wrong, it is usually better to tell the user about the problem and let her fix it, taking care to make finding solutions or workarounds for problems (like a misconfigured service) easy. This way, the user is in control of what happens and we can keep the implementation simple. To make a long story short, we don't try to be too clever, which is usually a good idea in developing software.