Comment 44 for bug 1072518

@Dimitri Thanks for the patch. This was all about tying up loose ends. Many unofficial resources on the web and some official ones too explicitly direct users to directly invoke that particular script. Which, if you are not in the loop, as I was and apparently another 119 users were, will lead you to inadvertently crashing your system. This was a left-over deprecated functionality that though 'everyone knows no to use it' will cause damage if used. As you eloquently put it, this functionality no longer has any practical use, therefore it needed to be pruned. Again I thank you.

Many tend to forget that Ubuntu's vision is to be the OS for humans. In many ways it has achieved this, but there is still room to improve. You'll find that for many people, Ubuntu is the first non M$ and non Mac OS that they ever experience, making it an excellent learning platform for people. So even though there is a wide gap between gui users and cli users, you'll find a large group somewhere in-between. So that's why it was so important to me to have this issue resolved. If a function is useless yet still carries the potential for harm, then there is no reason for it to exist. So thanks for your assistance.