Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunar won't build?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:11:35
Message-Id: 20070213170612.0c712be5@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: thunar won't build? by Grant Edwards
1 On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:30:54 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
2
3 > > Not searching bugs.gentoo.org before posting here
4 >
5 > I did, smartass.
6
7 That would have been useful information to include in your original post.
8 As you did search and not find one, why didn't you post a bug yourself
9
10 > Unfortantely, the gentoo bug database search
11 > facility completely sucks:
12 >
13 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=thunar
14 >
15 > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166573
16 >
17 > How in hell are you supposed to find bugs for thunar when the
18 > don't show up when you search on "thunar"?
19
20 Because you didn't search for closed bugs. The problem had not only been
21 found and reported, it had been fixed. In this situation, closed bugs are
22 more important than open ones - would you rather read a fix or a list of
23 other people with the same problem and no solution.
24
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27 Neil Bothwick
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29 Tribble math: * + * = ***********************************

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