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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 06:12:57PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Oh come on. I'm not going to insult the intelligence of people reading |
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> this list by explaining something that frickin' obvious. When it's a |
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> subtle issue I explain why it's wrong. When it isn't, I try to avoid |
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> wasting everyone's time by making them read a huge explanation of |
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> something they all already know. |
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Explaining stuff usually helps more than elitism. Those who already |
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know it can simply skip it, those who don't may learn a bit and |
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everyone wins. A lot of people are subscribed to this list and not |
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everyone is an ebuild dev, but some may be tomorrow's devs. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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