On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:57:37 PM wraeth wrote: > On 02/09/15 12:23, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 9:22:44 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:05:09PM -0600, the...@sys-concept.com > >> wrote: > >>> On 09/01/2015 04:55 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > >>>> Since you're too stupid to follow advice, you need to rebuild > >>>> > > *EVERYTHING* > >>>> that linked against libjpeg (in this case x11-libs/wxGTK). > >>> > >>> This kind of language does not belong here. If you can not > >>> refrain yourself making sarcastic remarks don't make any > >>> comments. > >> > >> This language occasionally belongs on this list. > >> > >>> I would appreciate you stop reading my posts at all. I don't > >>> belong to Gentoo community. > >> > >> OK. Maybe we all got off on the wrong foot here. When you ask for > >> help, can you please provide: > >> > >> * the *exact* command you ran * the output of `emerge --info' * > >> the whole error, not just the part you think is relevant > >> > >> It is incredibly difficult for us to help when we only get a > >> small piece of what's going on with your system. > >> > >> Alec > >> > > > > He was told what the problem was on his first post about > > libjpeg-turbo, he didn't just ignore it but posted the wrong > > solution with a big SOLVED on the subject that only serves to > > mislead future users of this list. On his last post about this same > > error (different package) I politely told him to go back and follow > > the advise on that post, again he ignored it and posted a bogus > > solution (it worked because he rebuilt tiff, perl had nothing to do > > with it). revdep-rebuild may (or may not) fix it now, but the right > > solution is to remove or fix the obsolete package to depend on > > virtual/jpeg, update world properly, and then revdep-rebuild to > > undo this mess. > > So someone posted an issue(s), then marked it solved when they got a > workaround which may not resolve the actual issue but got them past > their initial problem(s). > > Your argument to that is that their "false solution" will mislead > future readers of the list. Doesn't the same apply to insulting > participants of the list? Not to mention this comes shortly after a > discussion about attracting new blood into the Gentoo community. > > You don't have to participate in this thread. You could also simply > say "I said in your previous posts that you need to do /this/." > > We should never resort to insults and name calling if we want this to > be a productive list. If there's a problem with someone, either stop > replying to their messages, take it up with them directly (and > diplomatically), or bring it up with the list owner [1,2].
I have no excuse for name calling, that was wrong and I should've handled it better. Hopefully s/he'll get over it. It's arguable if that makes the list less productive, but certainly posting a new thread every few hours about the same issue will make it less productive. > 1: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > 2: gentoo-user+ow...@lists.gentoo.org > > -- > wraeth <wra...@wraeth.id.au> > GnuPG Key: B2D9F759 > -- Fernando Rodriguez
