Re: [gentoo-dev] About suggesting to create a separate partition for portage tree in handbook

[Brian Dolbec]

On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 11:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao <ryao@×××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
> > On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible
> >>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical,
> >>> since everyone has an SSD now.
> >>
> >> Yeah, right.  Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet
> >> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one?
> >
> > In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would
> > like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware
> > people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions.
>
> Nobody doesn't like what Brian had to say.  Most everybody around here
> including Ciaran likely agrees with him.
>
> The issue is that Ciaran said the complete opposite of what he was
> trying to communicate (sarcasm), and that likely due to
> language/culture/etc that might not have been clear to somebody who
> isn't a native English speaker in a western culture.
>
> The allusion was clearly to the larger udev/systemd/usr issues and the
> point he was making is that many of these boil down to disagreements
> about what use cases you consider important.
>
> So, just take everything Ciaran said in that particular post, assume
> he meant the exact opposite, and now you'll see where he is coming
> from.
>
> Yes, I do agree that sarcasm tends to cause problems on international
> email lists, but his post did at least make me smile.  :)
>
> Rich
>

I didn't miss that his statements were sarcasm.  I just failed at
sarcastic reply without it being clear that it was.  

Sorry, Not my best work :/

-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>