Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 16:05:06 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Youse <cyouse@icon.com> To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@ics.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ldconfig and libraries Message-ID: <XFMail.990204160506.cyouse@icon.com> In-Reply-To: <36BA0774.13496EC3@ics.com>
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Oh, just boot this asshole. On 04-Feb-99 Kaleb S. KEITHLEY wrote: > John Polstra wrote: > >> you're the fellow demanding that >> "ldconfig must die" and then looking to the FreeBSD development team >> to make the change (against the loudly expressed wishes of the vast >> majority of our users) and take the heat for it. > > ROTFLMAO. You (collectively) don't have any trouble taking the heat for, > e.g. the lack of SVR4-style rc/init, event though some number of people > want it. > > You're telling me you listen to your users, but when a user (me) tells > you something, you respond with "shut up, we don't want to hear what our > users are telling us." Which is it, are you listening or not? > > Where do you (collectively) make a stand, put your foot down, and say, > it's a bad idea, or redundant, or whatever the case may be and refuse to > do something? > > For the five-plus years I've subscribed to this list I've seen plenty of > evidence that "heat from the vast majority of your users" is rarely a > factor in making a technical decision. > >> OK, I'm not your Dr. Laura. > > Oh, that's really clever. I suppose I should be happy you're not telling > me I don't know how to read a spec or something similar. > > So, since you listen to your users, we'll be seeing SVR4-style rc/init > in 3.1, right? > > -- > > Kaleb > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message Chuck Youse, chuck@iconnet.net Icon CMT Network Operations Center, 1st Shift Supervisor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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