From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 26 1:49:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net [24.67.61.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C683637B423 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 01:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@home.com) Received: by h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net (Postfix, from userid 1002) id B267566B00E; Sat, 26 May 2001 02:40:32 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 02:40:32 -0600 From: Chris Moline To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20010526024032.A37341@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010525205530N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:55:30PM -0700 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message