On Friday 24 March 2017 10:20:46 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > I disagree. Sometimes there is no disagreement, someone is just plain > > wrong. Catherine has been given the use cases that disprove her thesis, > > and has been contradicting herself. > > Catherine's *suggestion* has been shot down for causing problems for some > use-cases; but the problem she wants to address still exists and is still > in need of a solution. I see very little interest here in people actually > addressing the problem (except Catherine); just a lot of "Get off my > lawn"-style posts, and a propensity of people to misprepresent *their* > opinion with that of the project as a whole. > > > if they insist on not wanting to be educated > > Interestingly that's exactly how I'd characterize most of the responses > *to* Catherine; deaf ears to the problem, due to dissatisafaction with a > proposed solution. > > > at a certain point you must simply wash > > your hands of them. It's not nice, but it *is* constructive. > > "Washing your hands" is deleting the thread and moving on; it's not posting > aggressive, toxic messages.
What we have *all* been losing sight of in this thread is that none of us can do anything about it anyway. An installer proposal needs making to the installer developers. Lisi