Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Update config files

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:
> Mark Haney posted <43E0C369.9070902@××××××××××××.org>, excerpted below,
> on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:19:21 -0500:
>
>
>> You know, personally, I really _dislike_ getting flamed from a post almost
>> a month old.  For the record, I _have_ read the documentation. But for
>> those of us who've done this a long time, the documented way isn't always
>> the _best_ way.  I asked only to see if there was another possibly better
>> method of handling configuration files.  I was not aware of dispatch-conf
>> at the time as I had been using etc-update.
>>
>> I simply do not have time to re-read the documentation every other day to
>> keep up with those types of changes.  If I did, I wouldn't have time to do
>> any work.
>>
>
> First, no flaming intended.  If you took it as a flame, I assure you it
> was only that due to your viewpoint.  My viewpoint is as I stated,
> Gentoo is highly rated for its documentation, and it's a shame not to use
> it, but my urging you to do so isn't a flame, simply an honest face-value
> recommendation.
>
> Second, it doesn't appear to be a month old.  The timestamp in both your
> original post and my reply which gives the time of the original post I'm
> replying to, says Jan 9, which is only ~3/4 month.  That aside, however,
> your post is only now appearing here on gmane -- for what reason I can't
> say, but it appeared in the last <24 hours, along with a couple replies,
> as a /new/ post, and I responded to it as such, failing to note the date
> until you mentioned it.
>
>
Then I stand corrected, and I apologize. 

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