Hate mail from Debian people
I don't appreciate getting hate mail from people simply because I was
politely TALKING ABOUT DEBIAN on the debian-user list.
I don't know where you get your communications and people skills,
Keshwarsingh Nadan, but if I were you I would take them back! For a full
refund!
Telling a Debian user that she should get lost because her view is
different than yours is pretty stone age, sorry. And I do NOT appreciate
it. I think YOU are the person who should move on. Like scram.
--- On Mon, 2/14/11, kn@debian.mu <kn@debian.mu> wrote:
> From: kn@debian.mu <kn@debian.mu>
> Subject: Re: New policies?
> To: "Erin Brinkley" <erinbrinkley@ymail.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Monday, February 14, 2011, 6:53 PM
> Why would you love to "upgrade
> software incrementally all the time"??
>
> Its stable/tested, CERTIFIEd to work fine, that's all..
>
> Move to another distro like fedora if you love to "upgrade
> software incrementally all the time".
>
> kn
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erin Brinkley <erinbrinkley@ymail.com>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:32:20
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: New policies?
>
> "Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
> wrote:
>
> > I will be pleased if my suggestion is worth to start a
> discussion of it.
>
> Great suggestion! Couldn't have said it better myself! Not
> even close!
>
> One thing I would like to add is that when Debian has a
> major upgrade, it
> should ALWAYS keep your config files. I know that it asks
> whether you want
> to install the new maintainer version or keep your old, but
> this is always
> a headache. I think the best answer is to merge the new
> features/options
> with the current existing user's version. Because whenever
> I choose to go
> with the new, I might get new options but all my
> customizations are gone
> and I have to go find the old config and figure it all out
> from scratch.
> If I just keep the old, then I loose all the new options
> and this
> sometimes breaks things too. It's probably the #1 user
> problem when
> upgrading.
>
> Also, for work systems I always just use stable. I don't
> need the newest
> version if it means something might break. But I do feel
> like things are
> getting harder to keep up, like maybe "stable" is getting
> too old. It
> would be nice as you say to upgrade some of the big
> packages slowly,
> somehow, without breaking 100 other dependencies. But I
> would personally
> LOVE it if from now on Debian "stable" were just an
> incremental upgrade.
>
> No more Toy Story names, but you just pick stable or
> unstable or testing
> or experimental, and then upgrades happen incrementally,
> slowly, every day
> or every week instead of every year or year and a half you
> have this huge
> upgrade that breaks everything and causes mass chaos for
> about a week. (I
> went from 5.0 to 6.0 last week and am still picking up the
> pieces all over
> the place...)
>
> Is something like this doable / desirable or do we have to
> just wait every
> year or so and then do a major upgrade? Like I said I would
> SO prefer to
> just upgrade software incrementally all the time. It would
> reduce user
> headaches plus it would keep Debian much more up to date.
>
> Erin
>
>
>
>
>
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