David Leverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 01:17:26 +0100:
> Assuming you mean the log that I think you mean, that person was called > stupid due to > > (zhllg) mlangc, actually i use this script to update the system: "sudo > emerge -tauvDN world || until sudo emerge --resume --skipfirst; do sudo > emerge --resume --skipfirst; done > > I hope you understand what's wrong with that. Well, yes, if that's /all/ he does, but that isn't necessarily the case, and if it is, that's a serious user educational opportunity missed when one just says he's stupid and kicks him, refusing to explain why or how he's stupid or what the better approach might be and why. The problem, regardless of whether it was a user who hadn't thought things thru or a problem with the software, didn't get solved. It still exists, in fact worse now, because there's now a frustrated user even /more/ convinced he's dumb and can't hope to understand how to do it right. That's another user now well on the way to being a dumb malware host and propagator, because everybody treats them as too stupid to understand how to act responsibly, and eventually, they give in and start to act like it and ultimately, believe it themselves. -- 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
