On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:54 AM Roderick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Theo, please, give him the travel blessing, before departure. > > Rod. > > > On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, [email protected] wrote: > > > Some people have needs that OpenBSD doesn't meet. Of course the > > logical thing to do is to adapt it to meet them or to use something > > which does but to some -- in line with the general complexication > > that's progressing nowadays -- this simple solution is not enough > > and the need to announce one's inadequacy to the world in passive > > aggressive tones arises. > > > > Indeed this happens so commonly that it has become something on the > > order of a FAQ, and in order not to have to eat my own words from > > the other day I've spent actual time in the other text editor doing > > some actual hacking (I know, right?!?) and include this diff for > > the developers' consideration. > > > > I have taken the liberty of assuming you want to be at least > > moderately polite as you tell people to kindly fuck off. My apologies > > if that's an oversight; I can re-do it if you wish. > > > > Matthew > > > > > > cvs diff: Diffing . > > Index: faq1.html > > =================================================================== > > RCS file: /home/flask/src/openbsd/cvsync/www/faq/faq1.html,v > > retrieving revision 1.238 > > diff -u -p -r1.238 faq1.html > > --- faq1.html 2 Oct 2019 15:40:06 -0000 1.238 > > +++ faq1.html 8 Jan 2020 16:12:30 -0000 > > [SNIP] > > > > >
I'd probably add a note to say something along the lines of "this isn't the airport, no need to announce your departure". Though the Venn diagram of "people who loudly leave an open source project's mailing list because said project didn't do 'X'" and "people who don't RTFM" is probably a circle... -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
