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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
> 
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