Mark Haney posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:19:21 -0500:
> You know, personally, I really _dislike_ getting flamed from a post almost > a month old. For the record, I _have_ read the documentation. But for > those of us who've done this a long time, the documented way isn't always > the _best_ way. I asked only to see if there was another possibly better > method of handling configuration files. I was not aware of dispatch-conf > at the time as I had been using etc-update. > > I simply do not have time to re-read the documentation every other day to > keep up with those types of changes. If I did, I wouldn't have time to do > any work. First, no flaming intended. If you took it as a flame, I assure you it was only that due to your viewpoint. My viewpoint is as I stated, Gentoo is highly rated for its documentation, and it's a shame not to use it, but my urging you to do so isn't a flame, simply an honest face-value recommendation. Second, it doesn't appear to be a month old. The timestamp in both your original post and my reply which gives the time of the original post I'm replying to, says Jan 9, which is only ~3/4 month. That aside, however, your post is only now appearing here on gmane -- for what reason I can't say, but it appeared in the last <24 hours, along with a couple replies, as a /new/ post, and I responded to it as such, failing to note the date until you mentioned it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- [email protected] mailing list
