On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 07:42, Robert Collins wrote:
> This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted the discussion
insert "to being only"
> legally or factually wrong.
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On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 05:27, M. Evans wrote:
> Max,
>
> There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
> moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
This is a straw man. Neither Max nor I restricted
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, M. Evans wrote:
> Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
So what ?
> There is another way to solve the whole problem. Cygwin could put the
> tarballs where I tell it, not in some deeply nested %-laden path that
> changes with every download. The
Thanks, I'll fix this in a couple days when I get the chance.
(Out of town right now.)
--- Max Bowsher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just found a couple of packaging errors in cygwin-doc-1.2-1
>
> No big problems, but worth fixing anyway.
>
>
> Source package:
>
> Unpacks into usr/src/cygwin-d
Max,
There are more flavors of wrongness than legal/factual. These include
moral, ethical, and software-horse-sense.
Politeness is a human quality one must learn from elders, and I can't
help you there.
Since the responses here have been unhelpful I will just unsubscribe.
You are very defensive
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 05:36:17PM -, Max Bowsher wrote:
>John Morrison wrote:
>>Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of
>>December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages have
>>postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of configuration
>>files in
John Morrison wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of
> December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages
> have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of
> configuration files into the correct location if they don't
> already ex
Hi All,
Christopher and I had a little conversation at the beginning of
December. It occured to me/us that a lot of cygwin packages
have postinstall scripts which just copy default versions of
configuration files into the correct location if they don't
already exist.
It was thought that this cou
Robert Collins wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 11:17, M. Evans wrote:
>> I admire Cygwin a great deal but that's bull. Nobody but Cygwin uses
>> the % sign.
>
> Thats a hasty generalization
> http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/hasty-generalization.html.
>
>> And
>> even if you guys were righ
