[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose

[Rick Moen]

Quoting cerise at armory.com (cerise at armory.com):

>    Oh, of course!  Didn't you get that memo?  No politics in debian.  No
> flamewars either.  They're a bunch of rumors tossed around to keep the hoi
> palloi out...

Retreat to vague handwave noted without comment.

>    I see you're ignoring the flamewar about the proprietary modules for
> the hardware on their eval boards. 

Must not have been much of a flamewar, since it didn't rate mention in
any of the progress reports, and the AMD64 release came pretty swiftly
after the other 11.  Meanwhile, the other, technical reasons cited
approximately everywhere seem to have caused no raised eyebrows.

[XFree86 to X.org transition:]

>    Actually, much of it had to do with the changeover of the C++ ABI and 
> proposed upgrade strategies.  But I suppose you've never read the email
> discussions about that...
>    Of course, even if your apparently made up excuse were true, it ought
> to seem a little odd to everyone that apparently Debian treating all of 
> their CPU architectures as "first-class citizens" meant a huge delay for
> all platforms, not just a certain common few.

I see you've forgotten or become confused about your original claim,
on which I was calling bullshit:  You were blaming Debian's slow move
from XFree86 to X.org on "politics", where in fact development migration
issues were at issue.

Apparently, you have abandoned your original claim, and we're supposed
to not notice you suddenly dropping it like a hot potato when
challenged.

>    There's nothing I love more than copied/pasted shell commands that were 
> obviously made up.

You allege dishonesty at the drop of a hat, I notice.  Meanwhile, others
on the mailing list have already confirmed my comment.

> phil at afriendsbox:~$ touch blah
> phil at afriendsbox:~$ tar cjvpf stuff.tbz2 blah
> tar: You must specify one of the `-Acdtrux' options

Sorry to hear about your "friend's" broken system, but that same
command on my Debian-testing server does the expected, exactly as
before.

  $ tar cjvpf baz.tar.bz2 procmail.log 
  procmail.log
  $ 

Which of course was my point.

Now, if you want to place a $1000 wager on the matter, please do drive
on over to my place; we'll load a default Debian "sarge" system from a
official netinst ISO we jointly download and burn.  Be sure to bring
cash, witnesses, and a prepared apology.

On further reflection, save that apology, since it really wouldn't be
worth spit, anyway.  Just the cash and witnesses would be fine.

-- 
Cheers,           A mosquito cried out in pain:       The cause of his sorrow
Rick Moen         "A chemist has poisoned my brain!"  Was para-dichloro
rick at linuxmafia.com                                   Diphenyltrichloroethane.