From: The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?
> I would not consider those "awesome answers".
Envy and jealousy is bad for health --I mean mental health.
From the time I asked questions till now, I have yet to see your "awesome" answers.
> They don't explain anything; they may let you get something done, but they don't help you understand what you're doing, why you're doing it, or > why doing it that way works when doing it a different
way wouldn't.
Do you think that I have learned things here? Zilch!
All that I've heard on this list is a lot of preachy stuff.
> Answers like that don't help you learn.
Oh yeah? You think you're better than the Linux experts who gave me the answer?
Tell you what. If you can explain in detail what the following commands do, I may, in future, pay more attention to what you have to say. (Talk is cheap.)
apt-cache search java | awk '{print($1)}' | grep -E -e '^(ia32-)?(sun|oracle)-java' -e '^openjdk-' -e '^icedtea' -e '^(default|gcj)-j(re|dk)' -e '^gcj-(.*)-j(re|dk)' -e 'java-common' | xargs sudo apt-get -y remove
(Explain to me in
detail what the above command does. Prove that besides being a good pontificator, you are equally good at helping stupid people like me learn.)
dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \
| perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1], "\n" if $F[0] eq "ii" && $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \
| xargs -r aptitude purge -y
(Explain to me in detail what the above command does. Prove that besides
being a good pontificator, you are equally good at helping stupid
people like me learn.)