On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 11:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Richard Yao <r...@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote: > > On 03/28/12 03:16, Brian Dolbec wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 19:16 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >>> But that's ok, because extensive studies have shown that the only possible > >>> reasons for putting /usr/portage on its own partition are historical, > >>> since everyone has an SSD now. > >> > >> Yeah, right. Since I must be the only one out there that doesn't yet > >> have an SSD, you'll give me (and anyone else that still doesn't) one? > > > > In response to the people who don't like what Brian had to say, I would > > like to say that we can't start making assumptions about what hardware > > people have and ignore anyone who does not fit those assumptions. > > Nobody doesn't like what Brian had to say. Most everybody around here > including Ciaran likely agrees with him. > > The issue is that Ciaran said the complete opposite of what he was > trying to communicate (sarcasm), and that likely due to > language/culture/etc that might not have been clear to somebody who > isn't a native English speaker in a western culture. > > The allusion was clearly to the larger udev/systemd/usr issues and the > point he was making is that many of these boil down to disagreements > about what use cases you consider important. > > So, just take everything Ciaran said in that particular post, assume > he meant the exact opposite, and now you'll see where he is coming > from. > > Yes, I do agree that sarcasm tends to cause problems on international > email lists, but his post did at least make me smile. :) > > Rich >
I didn't miss that his statements were sarcasm. I just failed at sarcastic reply without it being clear that it was. Sorry, Not my best work :/ -- Brian Dolbec <dol...@gentoo.org>
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