Re: dpkg and ownership of a file
On 2004-01-08, Brad Stockdale penned:
>
>>That is called "trolling." Please don't.
>
> But it more appropriately should have been called a "badly worded
> question from a previous staunch supporter of Red Hat before they
> became what they are today".
>
> Trolling, AFAIK is a comment used specifically to instigate an
> altercation of some type. That was not my intention at all, and
> apologize if it was taken in such a way.
>
> Sorry, Brad
>
By way of possible explanation ...
We've had a long series of "Why can't Debian do what RedHat/Mandrake
do?" questions recently. In some cases, the question is fair: something
that Debian doesn't do that would seemingly be consistent with
Debian's goals and would make the user experience better. In
many-to-most cases, however, Debian *can* do what they're asking.
It may not do so by default, often for security reasons.
So, while you probably didn't intend it as such, any question phrased as
"RH does this; why doesn't Debian?" or similar tends to inflame a sore
nerve.
I think that most of us would much rather see a question phrased as,
"I would like to do X. How can I do so using Debian
[stable|testing|unstable]?"
than,
"RedHat did X for me. Why can't Debian?"
--
monique
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