[SlugLUG] Help Me Choose

[cerise at armory.com]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:30:30PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Dismissal indeed -- my original point having been just made:  Rather
> than being what people normally think of as "politics", the delay in
> changeover from XFree86 to X.org reflected the obstacles to making
> changes across a dozen architectures and keep them all of them
> production-ready, comprising having to account for exactly the sort of
> transitions you cited in related packages, and similar things.  
> 
> Thank you for supporting my point; I trust to readers to draw the
> obvious additional conclusions about your vague handwaves and frequent
> resort to name-calling.

   Amazing.  You have an unfailing capacity to read only what fits in your
rather limited universe.
   It had nothing to do with "making changes across a dozen architectures".
It had to do with maintainers not being aware of the effect a new ABI would
have, blowing it out of proportion, and attempting to get out of having to 
make sure that the new packages worked on the old platform.
 
> And _you_ sir, go around accusing other people of making up software
> behaviour on their Debian Testing boxes, and then madly attempt to
> change the subject when asked to put money behind your accusation.
>
> OK, noted. 
> 
> Don't bother to apologise.  But the aforementioned cash would nicely
> offset the annoyance value of letting you in my house for an hour.

   Right -- that behavior was completely correct...Did you perhaps fail
to notice the missing steps?  Accept that you screwed up and let's move
on, shall we?  I have better things to do than to continue beating obvious
errors into your thick skull.
   Now THAT is changing the subject.
   On the other hand, offering to let you see the box with the behavior 
described is *not* "changing the subject".  It's clearly a binary placed there 
by Debian.  It displays the behavior I mentioned which, I might add, started 
the subject in the first place.
   (Do you just throw out these phrases without context?  Maybe you have one
of those mats that you jump on.  Dartboard?  Hat?)
   As yet, I have no reason to apologize -- excepting to the other members of
the list for your continuing waste of bandwidth, hard disk space, and time.
   Amazing how that parallels your waste of oxygen, nutrients, and calories...

-Phil/CERisE