Duncan wrote:
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.
Then I stand corrected, and I apologize.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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