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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:21:15
Message-Id: pan.2012.07.25.08.17.38@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: news item: changes to stages (make.conf and make.profile) by Sven Vermeulen
1 Sven Vermeulen posted on Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:05:02 +0000 as excerpted:
2
3 > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 01:15:43PM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
4 >> I think a news item is reasonable here (in addition to the above). Most
5 >> users don't know about the move from /etc/make.conf to
6 >> /etc/portage/make.conf. After this change, there will be a
7 >> gradually-increasing need to know that a switch took place.
8 >>
9 >> 1) To a first approximation, nobody reads the documentation.
10 >
11 > There sure are a lot of nobody's then...
12
13 Indeed. And thanks again SV, for your personal attention to a lot of
14 that documentation... that "nobody" reads! I guess I'm "nobody", then,
15 so you can now say "nobody" thanks you, too!
16
17 =:^)
18
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21 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
22 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman