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Date:      Sat, 26 May 2001 02:40:32 -0600
From:      Chris Moline <ugly-daemon@home.com>
To:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <20010526024032.A37341@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:55:30PM -0700
References:  <OE610Ux9J1a5yuESE4p00002b4b@hotmail.com> <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:55:30PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> One might also be forgiven at this point for asking why checkbox and
> radio menus behave in so finicky a fashion as to require all those
> prominent notices posted everywhere.  Clearly if you were the first to
> run across it, warning signs wouldn't be posted in quite so many
> places.
> 
> 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.
Then why use libdialog?? I am going to have a look at it just to see if its that
bad. Wish me luck??

Sincerly,
Chris Moline

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