On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:37, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:54, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > No, Lyvim. For everyone else on this list, this is a simple practical
> > matter of what is the best way for rpmdrake to function. No-one on this
> > list, to the best of my knowledge, being an automaton, we all inevitably
> > have different ideas on this topic. It's just *you* who seems to want to
> > turn it into a Biblical struggle. GIVE IT UP.
> 
> It was never a simple matter because it involved the public at large, it
> *is* a free public debate involving history and different ideas about
> the best way for rpmdrake to function, and the fact that we all have

Everything to do with Mandrake involves the public at large exactly as
much as this issue, purely insofar as it's "the public at large" that
uses rpmdrake. The idea that Mandrake have some special obligation to
consult "the public at large" as to how to design software is your
invention. Your usage of the term "free public debate" is the kind of
thing I find intensely irritating about your tone throughout this
debate; it's speechifying nonsense designed to elevate the debate to
lofty abstracts and allow you to go on in your grandiose fashion about
things that are rather irrelevant to the actual software.
-- 
adamw


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