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Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks
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Stephen J. Turnbull |
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Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks |
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Wed, 08 Oct 2003 13:12:01 +0900 |
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>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Suffield <address@hidden> writes:
Andrew> "Can't learn, won't learn" -> "Don't care"
Nope. That's the point of the *BSD example: I don't know
/etc/makefiles/*.mk (or whatever it is from a pair of holes in the
ground---but learning about those is a lot more attractive than
learning enough about debbumf to get what I want done done.
Andrew> Really, we don't. We're going to keep trying to get the
Andrew> best result we can; this necessitates that we do things in
Andrew> ways that other people don't.
It depends on whether you define "best result" as "fewest bug reports"
or "most successful installs by potheads and other folks with the
intelligence of a 5-year-old household appliance" or "happy hackers."
Andrew> [Your argument basically reduces to "Debian should do
Andrew> things in the manner I'm familiar with"]
Yup. With a coefficient of importance somewhere between zero and one.
Based on your "black/white" teleology, it has to be zero or one. I'm
asking for something in the middle. In particular, if it's gonna be
evil, at least let it be a devil I know!
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- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, (continued)
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/02
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/03
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/04
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/04
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/05
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/05
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/07
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/07
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/08
- Re: [OT] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Arch hooks, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Arch hooks, Tobias C. Rittweiler, 2003/10/02