Re: /opt/ again (was Re: FreeBSD-like approach for Debian? [was: ...])
Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 9:40:22 AM, Branden wrote:
> On the contrary, you seem to believe your opinion should carry at least
> equal weight to all the precedent and tradition that conflicts with it.
No, I have asked for and never got a valid *TECHNICAL* reason for it. It
took well over a day for it. Apparently people here, yourself included now,
are more interested in brow-beating people instead of offering real answers to
real questions.
> Your greatest talent seems to lie in wasting the time of people who are
> actually trying to make meaningful contributions to free software.
> Congratulations.
If they answered the questions posed instead of being pricks about it,
their time would not be wasted, would it? No.
> That is why you get the chilly reception you do.
Incorrect, I get the chilly reception I do because I don't bow and scrape
to every half-assed answer presented to me and then slither into the corner
like a good little lemming.
> No one questions your right to set up/break your own machines however you
> please. But they will challenge your attempts to remold the world to fit
> your personal esthetic.
A personal esthetic, I might add, that was founded on technical reasoning
based on the facts at hand that was challenging other's assertations on those
grounds and receiving little more than a "because we feel like it" in
response. I don't know about you, but "because we feel like it" doesn't cut
the mustard in a technical discussion. I doubt that you'd accept it.
> If you really want to impact this issue, I suggest you attempt to join the
> FHS committee. I wouldn't be surprised if they turn you down, though. You
> seem to be more concerned with a kind of self-aggrandizing partisanship
> than with resolving real-world technical issues.
No, I don't want to impact the issue. I wanted a technical reason for it
or nothing.
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