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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:24:25
Message-Id: 201110062122.05522.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement by Dale
1 On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 20:42:43 Dale wrote:
2 > Michael Orlitzky wrote:
3 > > On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
4 > >> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not being
5 > >> used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it with
6 > >> passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it again and
7 > >> the process will repeat.
8 > >
9 > > But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks every
10 > > week?
11 > >
12 > > This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend a good
13 > > eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting it. In
14 > > the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will work exactly
15 > > how it does now.
16 > >
17 > > If Grub were the only package to do this -- fine, whatever. But next
18 > > week it will be something else. I don't know what my point is, but it
19 > > feels good to bitch about it.
20 >
21 > This is how I feel about the initramfs thingy and /usr and /var. What
22 > is next? I am pretty sure it will be something tho.
23
24 I share your pain. :-(
25
26 I'm not sure if this a sign of me getting (even) older, or Linux maturing and
27 in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more and more
28 for mainstream ignoramuses. :p
29
30 --
31 Regards,
32 Mick

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