On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > > anything intelligent if I tried. Back in the golden age, for about ten > years even! my approach to updating my system worked great. Then emerge > got ornery and stopped letting the necessary, cathartic, inevitable, > trainwreck take place, which is actually a good thing because the > partial-good, update which seems nightmarish on first analysis, > ***ACTUALLY CORRECTS ITSELF WHEN THE SCRIPT IS RUN REPEATEDLY UNTIL NO > PROBLEMS REMAIN AND THE SYSTEM IS PRISTINE AND GOOD FOR REBOOT***. I > have done this happily many many many many times. It actually works that > way and I was gleefully singing gentoo's praise for many years.
I only check back into this mailing list like every few months to hear about major changes. The "how to troll like a boss" thread kept getting marked as "Important" on my inbox so I had a peek at Mr Grimes' history and here we are. The above was raked from Mr Grimes' most recent miracle, and I have to say, it feels strangely satisfying for this mailing list to get a taste of its own medicine. Alan, if you _really_ wanted to troll like a boss, you could point out that this is how a large part of this mailing list treats the sysvinit vs systemd split; that telling someone to "learn something new" even though their practice has worked for a decade isn't "the Unix way", not like anyone understands "the Unix way" outside of a bunch of idealized platitudes :P But then again, I've told people off for refusing to learn something new multiple times so I get a free pass from any claims to hypocrisy, so here goes (deep breath): LEARN SOMETHING NEW. YOU FUCKING IDIOT. What you were doing was broken from the very beginning; you just never realized it because the breakage was more manageable back then. Less deps; less change; less packages; less code; less contributors; less tinfoil-hatters who couldn't repair an LVM or "init thingy" to save their life. It's literally no different than a spaghetti-code php script kiddy saying that unescaped MySQL queries "always worked for them before". Well of course it has. And so have your SQL injections. Same goes for the jackhammer script and your circular breakages. ==== Trolling aside, it's been more than a year since deadline creep (and a case of excessive HP laptop heat) forced my hand away from gentoo and the compile cycle. I'm pleasantly surpised about the changes I'm hearing out in emerge. emerge -e without no, or only a handful of breaks? I'll have me some thanks. :)) -- This email is: [ ] actionable [ ] fyi [x] social Response needed: [ ] yes [x] up to you [ ] no Time-sensitive: [ ] immediate [ ] soon [x] none
