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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes: |
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> Patches are always more welcome than suggestions. "Fix it!" is never as |
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> welcome as "here's how". I think it was Canek who said "code talks". |
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Do you have an example for such a case? My experience has disproved |
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this claim, and I've even seen people fixing stuff multiple times after |
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I told them it's broken and provided a perfectly working version before |
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telling them, much better coded, which they could have used instead of |
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insisting on their crappy code and trying to fix it several times. |
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>> and now even if you |
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>> came up with some pointer what to look at (since emerge, for example, is |
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>> a wrapper script from which I couldn't see where to start), |
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> Really? The first few lines of the script tell you where the real scripts |
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> are? The wrapper seems to be there to deal with different default |
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> Python versions. |
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Yes, really. I don't know python and I can see that emerge points to |
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some library directory while I can not see which script would actually |
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run other than the wrapper. |
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>> I wouldn't waste my time with it. |
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> Then why on Earth would you expect the devs to do it for you with that |
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> attitude? |
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I don't believe that they let everyone modify what they're working on, |
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so they are the only ones who /can/ fix it. Besides, show me where I said |
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something like "I want the devs to fix it". |
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> Adding the word "just" to a demand does not make the task any |
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> simpler, nor does it increase your chances of getting what you want. |
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Go ahead and show me where I have demanded something. |
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> On the contrary, it serves to illustrate that you do not grasp the |
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> complexity of the situation. |
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Perhaps you can enlighten me how it is so difficult to change a message |
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from "slot conflict" to "slot conflict (can probably be ignored while |
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there are other problems)" and what the complexity is which makes it |
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impossible to do so. |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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