my reply to this thread has no references b/c most of the prior stuff is irrelevant to the contents of this reply.
the reason nobody wants to accomodate liviu is that it takes WORK, namely other people's valuable time that could be spent working on code that > 1 person is agitating about. in all the time it took liviu to generate the heap of negative karma bitchy replies that he has sent to ports@, he could have likely coded and patched his system to work in the manner he wants and have avoided pissing off so many people. by endlessly complaining "fix it! accomodate me, i'm important!" liviu has demonstrated his opinion that the developer time it takes to prepare things as he suggests is less valuable than his own (not to mention the time wasted arguing with him). despite this, daniel has made a point to be nice and give you a patch and you still won't STFU. if you want something that other people aren't actively campaigning for, do it yourself. i can't imagine liviu has gotten as far as he has in mathematics without experiencing this phenomenon. liviu's argument makes sense in the neighborhood of liviu's space-time, but it does not patch to our own neighborhoods very well ;). the net human energy and man hours wasted with liviu's complaining far exceeds the time it would have taken to find what is needed from xbaseXY.tgz to make such a setup work, i.e. for liviu to hammer this out himself, as he should have after the first few posts. understanding the policies of the ports maintainers is a good thing. putting people on the defensive when they are, IMO, doing a great job, is a really poor way to get people to help you out. a picking apart of my post based on minutae that seem relevant in liviu's local frame is what i'm fully expecting. i feel stupid having spent the time i just did writing this, another waste of human energy.
