Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 31 January 2006 at 21:54, Greg Kochanski wrote:
| Sorry. Lost my temper for a moment.
No apologies needed. I tend to be fairly kurt with bug reports, but I do this
as a volunteer so nobody pays me to hold your hand either.
| Yes, it was a user error. What makes you believe that
| prevents it from being a bug?
I'm all for better documentation and patches, but it is no help for me that
you just sit over there and complain "oh, it didn't let write a file" when we
both know you don't have write perms for the directory.
/usr/local is a funny beast as Debian actually guarantees it will __not__
create any files there. All that packages do is create empty directories for
eg Emacs elisp, or R packages, or what have you.
So if you have a concrete suggestion for the Debian case, let me know. Or if
you have an upstream patch, show it to R-devel.
Yes, I did have a concrete suggestion, and it was in my bug report.
The group "staff" is designed for that particular purpose.
See http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/109 .
But, as I said, never mind. And don't take it personally.
Indeed, I appreciate your note -- it's about the only positive
thing I've gotten from anyone associated with R.
I'm just frustrated at having spent a bunch of late nights
writing lecture notes to no real purpose.
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