No. The thing is that you need these kinds of hacks while messing with old
systems, building and stripping them, often in recovery type of situations.
As said (same as the other person I saw reacting) details of what was most
decidedly needed last time around escape me at the moment, but ide=reverse
is the kind of hack that saves one hours of unscrewing computer cases and
switching disks around while building stuff, making quick tests, doing
recovery...
If it must go for the greater architectural good, so be it, but it's the
type of thing that's used specifically in the situations where you don't
have stable, well arranged (or known!) setups to begin with.
Rene.
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