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On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> anything intelligent if I tried. Back in the golden age, for about ten |
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> years even! my approach to updating my system worked great. Then emerge |
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> got ornery and stopped letting the necessary, cathartic, inevitable, |
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> trainwreck take place, which is actually a good thing because the |
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> partial-good, update which seems nightmarish on first analysis, |
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> ***ACTUALLY CORRECTS ITSELF WHEN THE SCRIPT IS RUN REPEATEDLY UNTIL NO |
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> PROBLEMS REMAIN AND THE SYSTEM IS PRISTINE AND GOOD FOR REBOOT***. I |
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> have done this happily many many many many times. It actually works that |
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> way and I was gleefully singing gentoo's praise for many years. |
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I only check back into this mailing list like every few months to hear |
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about major changes. The "how to troll like a boss" thread kept |
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getting marked as "Important" on my inbox so I had a peek at Mr |
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Grimes' history and here we are. |
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The above was raked from Mr Grimes' most recent miracle, and I have to |
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say, it feels strangely satisfying for this mailing list to get a |
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taste of its own medicine. |
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Alan, if you _really_ wanted to troll like a boss, you could point out |
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that this is how a large part of this mailing list treats the sysvinit |
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vs systemd split; that telling someone to "learn something new" even |
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though their practice has worked for a decade isn't "the Unix way", |
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not like anyone understands "the Unix way" outside of a bunch of |
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idealized platitudes :P |
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But then again, I've told people off for refusing to learn something |
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new multiple times so I get a free pass from any claims to hypocrisy, |
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so here goes (deep breath): |
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LEARN SOMETHING NEW. YOU FUCKING IDIOT. |
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What you were doing was broken from the very beginning; you just never |
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realized it because the breakage was more manageable back then. Less |
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deps; less change; less packages; less code; less contributors; less |
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tinfoil-hatters who couldn't repair an LVM or "init thingy" to save |
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their life. |
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It's literally no different than a spaghetti-code php script kiddy |
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saying that unescaped MySQL queries "always worked for them before". |
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Well of course it has. And so have your SQL injections. |
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Same goes for the jackhammer script and your circular breakages. |
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Trolling aside, it's been more than a year since deadline creep (and a |
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case of excessive HP laptop heat) forced my hand away from gentoo and |
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the compile cycle. |
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I'm pleasantly surpised about the changes I'm hearing out in emerge. |
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emerge -e without no, or only a handful of breaks? I'll have me some |
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thanks. :)) |
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