Previously James Troup wrote: > [..snip..] however I have and will continue to claim that packaging > IRC robots so that *anyone* can run one is evil. I don't think evil is the right word here. What you mean to say seems you don't want to make it easy for people to do possibly un-nice things. > I know some 12 year olds who desperately want to run a bot but who can't, > thankfully, compile eggdrop. And even if they had the binary, they couldn't configure it. Most of the times configuring something is much harder then compiling it. > [1] [Netgod: don't mix the two things, I think dpkg[the bot] is evil > because of the lame stuff it does, I have to agree I'm not very fond of seeing forunes every couple of minutes in irc.debian.org... Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@wi.LeidenUniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wakkerma/
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