On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Jaromil <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, poitr pogo wrote: > > > >> On 2/25/16, Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> (...) > >> > >> > Considering that shared objects and dynamic linking were > >> > originally a MULTICS feature (dating back to about 1965) and > >> > introduced to UNIX(*) with SunOS 4.0 in 1988, the best course of > >> > action to deal with people who are so afraid of changes that they > >> > keep rejecting "useful new features" for 51/ 28 years in a row is > >> > "roundly ignore them". Especially if they claim to be > >> > 'modernizers' because the ancient technology they're so wedded to > >> > is so seriously ancient that large groups of people meanwhile > >> > forgot about that ... ___ > >> > >> Is this some kind of pro systemd propaganda ? :D > > > > I am not the only one to perceive Rainer's contributions as rather > > questionable for the conversations here. However, be it propaganda or > > not, what is really annoying is that it goes quite far off-topic, by > > abstracting a specific issue into a general political consideration of > > how history goes. > > In case you want it specific: 'libdb must not be updated because nameless > "Bitcoin developers" are afraid that this may introduce "issues" for > them is a red herring'. The same applies to any other software on the > system which could possibly interact with "bitcoin software", eg, > prominently, the kernel. > > I consider the sentiment behind this request based on irrational fear > about the unknown, for the stated reasons, as this "opinion" has never > been gone unvoiced for long ever since dynamic linking was introduced. > > > I think we should be concerned by specific issues rather than such > > generic and political debates. > > Sometimes, 'specific questions' ("Should bitcoin developers get 'special > protection' against measures users of bitcoin software might employ, eg, > as specifically mentioned, library security updates"?) have answers > depending on general considerations ("no more than the other 500 less > prominent developers who considered that de rigueur for their own, > mental well-being before"). You aren't really contributing with any of your emails, if you can not help the Devuan developers on a technical level regarding my subject, please refrain from further mailing on this list. What you are doing is just derailing, nothing more.
~ parazyd
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