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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote: |
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> On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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>> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible |
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>>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, |
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>>> since everyone has an SSD now. |
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>> Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet |
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>> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one? |
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> In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would |
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> like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware |
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> people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions. |
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Nobody doesn't like what Brian had to say. Most everybody around here |
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including Ciaran likely agrees with him. |
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The issue is that Ciaran said the complete opposite of what he was |
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trying to communicate (sarcasm), and that likely due to |
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language/culture/etc that might not have been clear to somebody who |
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isn't a native English speaker in a western culture. |
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The allusion was clearly to the larger udev/systemd/usr issues and the |
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point he was making is that many of these boil down to disagreements |
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about what use cases you consider important. |
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So, just take everything Ciaran said in that particular post, assume |
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he meant the exact opposite, and now you'll see where he is coming |
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from. |
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Yes, I do agree that sarcasm tends to cause problems on international |
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email lists, but his post did at least make me smile. :) |
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Rich |