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On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on |
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> thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin |
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> provisioning". |
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I raised a bug report about that once, against use.desc. There was a flurry |
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of activity as devs looked around their own bailiwicks and fixed them, then |
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everything went quiet again. |
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It's an example of no designer or coder enjoying any of the still important |
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bits left over when the acceptance test is passed. |
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> What really takes up time maintaining a computer, or |
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> programming for that matter, is continually having to look somewhere else |
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> for something. Even though I doubt it was deliberately designed to |
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> annoy, that emerge -s entry could hardly have been more annoying if |
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> somebody had tried to make it so. |
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Quite so. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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Speak severely to your boy |
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And beat him when he sneezes. |
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He only does it to annoy |
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Because he knows it teases. |
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