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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:58:32
Message-Id: 201008191755.02426.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1 by Neil Bothwick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 14:49 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil
2 Bothwick did opine thusly:
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4 > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:05:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > But for critical production machines? Not a flying chance in hell :-)
6 > > Too many times I've had to sort out the carnage from idiotic juniors
7 > > who blindly run "emerge -uND world" and walk away thinking Unix always
8 > > works like RedHat.
9 >
10 > Why do you give these idiotic juniors the root password/sudo emerge rights?
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13 Because I have better things to do than log into 137 machines and do what it
14 takes to update world on each one? Remember this ain't a cluster - only about
15 20 of them share any kind of common usage.
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17 Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will never
18 become responsible.
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21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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