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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> no, I want an installation, that filters out everybody too dumb to read the |
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> fucking manual. |
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Where do you draw the line? Someday we're going to have real reverse |
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dependecy checking, fixing, etc. So any idiot can blindly update x |
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package and not have to realize that it was a major upgrade and manually |
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check all his packages that depend on it and upgrade/rebuild those |
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packages and restart the services. Is that too idiot proof? |
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You say coddling idiots, I say fixing broken or overly complicated |
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processes. |
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On a mailing list you're going to get questions stupid and otherwise. |
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If you're not prepared to deal with this, unsubscribe or figure out how |
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to use the delete button. I don't use Linux as a desktop so I generally |
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delete 60-70% of the traffic in gentoo-user. You don't have to read the |
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entire list. |
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Let's take yet another of my real world examples that I like to use in |
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place of random foaming at the mouth, The Gentoo Virtual Mail How-to. |
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It's a decent How-to if you follow it exactly. By answering a hundred or |
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so questions related to it in the forums I've been able to fix my |
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installation faster when it broke, upgrade without problems, know |
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exactly what errors are caused what symptoms, and ultimately change the |
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original flawed design to work better and safer. |
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You say taking up space and bandwidth, I say QA testers though |
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admittedly poorly trained. |
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As for Gentoo being for idiots, I have a calendar at work. Every so |
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often I mark a day a Super Genius when I think of something especially |
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brillant. And every so often I mark a day as Befuddled by the Obvious |
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for those days when I'm surprised that anyone actually lets me admin |
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their network. Over the course of the year they generally total about |
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the same. I suspect most of us are in the same boat. As long as Gentoo |
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facilitates the Genius moments as well as keeping me a bit safer during |
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the Befuddled moments it's striking the right balance. |
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You say we'll let in idiots, I say we have met the enemy and it is us. |
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kashani |
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