From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 29 14:25:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240F337B423; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f4TLPEK11243; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:25:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f4TLPDh58534; Tue, 29 May 2001 14:25:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:25:13 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: New fortune entry? Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org New fortune entry? -----FW: <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>----- The answer is that libdialog, the library on which sysinstall depends for these menus, is genuinely evil. It is the unloved, satanic bastard child of multiple parents and torturing users like yourself constitutes the only joy in life it has left. Its source files are all chmod'd 0666 and dire README files warn against trespass by neophyte programmers. It is the 7th gate of Hell. It makes the baby Jesus cry. Were libdialog given anthropomorphic representation, it would be promptly burnt at the stake and its ashes scattered in the desert, to be then doused with holy water from altitude by fire-fighting aircraft. -- Jordan K. Hubbard on the evils of libdialog --------------End of forwarded message------------------------- -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message