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Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Mark David Dumlao wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 1:31 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>> One thing that you seem to be missing here. Before Gentoo, I used Mandrake. |
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>>>> It had a init thingy. It caused me much grief and is one reason I left |
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>>>> Mandrake. I also didn't like the upgrade process either but one reason I |
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>>>> chose Gentoo is no init thingy. I wanted to be rid of that. Now, whether |
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>>>> it is udev or not, here comes that stupid init thingy just because someone |
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>>>> doesn't want to put files where they should be which is not inside /usr. |
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>>>> So, given my history with the init thingy, if I do use a init thingy and it |
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>>>> fails for whatever reason, I'll be installing something else. I done went |
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>>>> down the road of trying to fix one of those stupid things and I have no plan |
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>>>> or desire to do so again. I'm also not going to spend hours reinstalling |
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>>>> Gentoo either. If, more than likely when, the init thingy fails, I'll be |
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>>>> installing something else and I'll most my last sign off message here. One |
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>>>> thing about Linux, there are plenty of distros to pick from . I love Gentoo |
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>>>> but I like to be able to boot up without dealing with a init thingy that I |
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>>>> have to fix when it goes belly up. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Dale |
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>>> I don't know why people keep humoring this kind of explanation for |
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>>> systemd, udev, or /usr FUD, but this is not a rational way to think. It's |
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>>> the same kind of excuse to say "I'm never going to use any kind of Linux, |
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>>> even Android, because I tried it 3 or 4 times when it was on floppies, |
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>>> and I couldn't get it to work". |
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>>> I'm really sorry about your terrible experience with "init thingies" in the |
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>>> past, but you've got to face the facts: |
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>>> 1) most distros today, Kubuntu included, bundle an "init thingy" |
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>>> and it works flawlessly for them. |
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>>> 2) you really, seriously, have to own up to the fact that your init thingy |
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>>> failing was very likely your fault (because of 1) |
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>>> 3) managing "init thingies" has gotten ridiculously easy over time as |
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>>> compared to when you manually had to build them |
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>>> |
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>>> Especially that number 2 part. I mean, let's not forget that character |
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>>> of Gentoo as a distribution. Or heck, even *nix distributions in general. |
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>>> *nix distributions give you a lot of tools to arrange your systems the |
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>>> way you want, i.e. choice, but it is always implicitly under the assumption |
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>>> that the choice you're making is an *informed* choice. |
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>>> That's why you're asked to read the manual, or check the readmes, |
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>>> or check the sample configs, and in this day and age, do a basic search |
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>>> for working examples, before asking questions. *nix is not, and has |
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>>> never been about being "polite" to users who don't know what they |
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>>> are doing, and has always been about being efficient to users who do. |
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>>> I've been recommended to put it "over the top" bluntly before, so: |
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>>> 1) STOP. FREAKING. BEING. IRRATIONAL. |
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>>> 2) STOP BLAMING INIT THINGIES FOR YOUR MISTAKES. THE DAMNED |
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>>> THINGS WORK. |
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>>> 3) If you're scared of doing an init thingy *manually*, just read and do |
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>>> the howto of the simplest init thingy manager in town (dracut? genkernel?). |
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>>> It surely takes less time and effort than migrating to Kubuntu or whatever. |
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>> Already tried making a init thingy from a really nice howto, Gentoo one |
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>> I think. Failed big time. Heck, the init thingy barely even loaded |
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>> before it failed. I seem to recall posting on here. As far as I know, |
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>> no one knew how to fix it or what was wrong. The dracut one worked but |
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>> if it ever failed, I'm in the same boat, no freaking clue how to fix it |
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>> or where to start and if I can't boot, no help either. So just to |
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>> update, my most recent experience wasn't to good either. It isn't all |
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>> about YEARS ago. It is also about more recent attempts. |
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> Meanwhile, for more stupidly over the top blunt trauma: |
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> Please grow up and read your excuses for what they are. You |
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> (1) failed to make an init thingy manually |
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> (2) refuse to use a known working system that thousands use |
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> on account of GREMLINS |
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> and |
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> (3) threaten to replace it with another working system that thousands use. |
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> but no gremlins here! |
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> At the end of they day, you don't want to learn how to do it "the hard way". So |
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> do it the easy way and be done with your troubles. If you don't want to do it |
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> EITHER way fine, but stop pretending that it's anything else but a problem |
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> with your attitude. You're being exactly the kind of user that unpaid |
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> volunteer devs don't want to waste time having to support. |
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And that is your opinon which is pretty much useless and wrong to boot. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |