> On 10 Feb 2016, at 23:11, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 10 Feb 2016, at 18:25, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On 10 Feb 2016, at 15:07, David T. Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 02:46:23PM +0100, Guille Polito wrote:
>>>> Yeap, linux VMs are not shipped with the plugin since a couple of years.
>>>> Then, the code in the image is needed.
>>>
>>> For background - the UUID plugin is trivially simple, but there were
>>> issues on certain Linux distributions that caused it to be a big pain
>>> for packaging and distribution. Nowadays the in-image UUID is so fast
>>> that the plugin is no longer worth the aggrivation.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>
>> Thanks for adding to the discussion, Dave.
>>
>> <Not meant for the messenger/>
>>
>> This whole f*ing mess makes me angry and sad.
>> This happens when you don't clean up when you can.
>>
>
> One thing that I still do not understand from back when I tried to
> contribute to Squeak was that “cleaning” was not only discouraged
> but even *actively* made impossible.
>
> I still do not understand the reason. Cui Bono? It just destroyed having
> *any* form of future… the thing that we, allegedly, where trying to invent…
>
>
Ah, and, sorry, I normally never wanted to write emails like that.
Please just ignore.
Marcus
