[OT] Re: aptitude "why" command (was: digikam upgrade: plugins to be remove)
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:38:46 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:30:36PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 20:23:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > >
> > > You can thank this list for the feature, I got the idea when I noticed
> > > that something like 99% of the questions people have about apt(itude) are
> > > of the form "WTF is this package being installed/removed/not installed?"
> >
> > The next time I hear the tired old "Free software developers only want
> > to scratch their own itches; they never care about the problems of
> > non-geek users" tirade, I can simply refer people to this thread.
>
> to which the hopeless will respond: "See, they got an itch from the
> annoying user questions and scratched that itch to make it go away..."
>
> but then they're hopeless. ;)
I prefer to think of such people in terms of being "special".
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