On Thursday 23 March 2017 11:50:33 Joe wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:07:22 +0100 > > Mart van de Wege <mvdw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:52:46PM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > > >> > Do you prefer that people move on to other distros after a base > > >> > system only installation because the Debian installer let them > > >> > inadvertently get there? > > >> > > >> If they're like you, yes. Good riddance. > > > > > > This thread is a great example of why I really despise debian-user > > > sometimes. There's no reason to be so hostile, you simply disagree > > > with each other. This list is too toxic a lot of the time. Please > > > either post friendly and constructively or not at all. > > > > I disagree. Sometimes there is no disagreement, someone is just plain > > wrong. Catherine has been given the use cases that disprove her > > thesis, and has been contradicting herself. > > > > Continuing to be nice in some misguided attempt at false balance > > *does* *not* *help*. If someone is wrong, they should be told; if > > they insist on not wanting to be educated, at a certain point you > > must simply wash your hands of them. It's not nice, but it *is* > > constructive. > > > > "Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore" > > - Cicero > > But it can be done politely, and with dignity, and sometimes is. 'Good > riddance' is not, by any possible standard, polite.
Cuiusvis hominis est errare. Greg is human too, and had been becoming more and more exasperated. I can think of one or two of the highest value (IMHO) people on this list who are sometimes very impolite. As I said to the victim of one of them (and I too have been the "victim"), if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Catherine *had* been told politely, repeatedly, but had not been willing to "hear". Lisi
