Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >>Martin Read wrote: >> >>Right. This sounds more and more like "we're going to rewrite the >>rules, and if you don't like it, we're taking our ball and going home." > > Various people have tried to explain how a binary distribution like > Debian works (build packages with all options included by defauls) and > how shared libraries work on Linux (all the libraries need to be there > to satisfy symbol resolution at run time, even if none of the code is > ever used). When those explanations fell on deaf ears, people have > resorted to analogy. That was clearly a waste of time too.
Appreciating and understanding an explanation doesn't mean that someone who appreciates the explanation and understands it comes to the same conclusions or opinions about what has been explained. Your car manufacturer and the sales people can give you all kinds of explanations about why you'd be forced to never take off the trailer and keep telling you that the rules demand it to remain hooked up all the time. That doesn't mean that you like the idea or that you would buy the car. > These are standard "rules" that have existed for many years, there is > no rewriting going on at all. Instead, it seems there are people who > won't, or don't want to, understand explanations when given. For > people who claim to have technical backgrounds, that's a surprising > (and very frustrating) problem. Some people still have common sense and/or don't go along with everything the car manufacturers and sales people are trying to sell them. If the reception of what they make or try to sell frustrates the manufacturers or sales people, perhaps they'd be happier to re-design the product. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87lhnu2vin....@gulltop.yagibdah.de
