At 1:22 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote:
>
>>At least a file release or news item of ONLY passwd. (you don't 
>>have to release an entire fink update!) But nothing was posted. No 
>>news. No "Warning to fink users".
>
>Yes, there probably should have been some warnings. A pity nobody 
>thought of it, or suggested it. :-(



Hmm, ok it wasn't october, but i suggested this on  2002-03-04 in the 
bug report.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=508902&group_id=17203&atid=117203


>
>
>>  Just short statements that "smart users won't delete users with 
>>system preferences".
>
>I agree that's a stupid statement to make (I don't recall it was 
>made, nor by whom, but that's really unimportant now).


http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=17203&atid=117203&func=detail&aid=543311

almost verbatim.


>
>>  Why the hostility towards the users? The only clue that the fink 
>>devs know anything about this bug has been on this mailing list.
>
>Woa woa, that's a heavy accusation, claiming we are hostile to end 
>users, and in my eyes extremly unfair. I think we have proven often 
>enough we are not. Look at the heaps of mails dedicated members of 
>the Fink community write every day to help

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=17203&atid=117203&func=detail&aid=543311

almost verbatim.

-Ben
-- 
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