Bug#181632: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#181632: xserver-xfree86: could not open default font 'fixed')
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:08:36AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 03:18:27PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > if i didn't care about debian, and didn't want other
> > people like my brother and my friends to be able to
> > use it (instead of bloody suse and stupid redhat),
> > i wouldn't press this issue, i would have dropped
> > it _several_ emails ago.
>
> It appears to me that, among other things, you did not read the woody
> Release Notes, which do in fact discuss xfonts-base.
no! didn't know _those_ existed either!!!!
*grin*.
this is all about communication.
of all the advice i have received, which i _really_ really
appreciate, not one single bit of it could i have found
without all your (collective) help.
basically, the debian project is seriously lacking a glossary,
index and reference knowledge base.
even if such things do already exist, they exist in places that
require knowledge in order to find _out_ that they exist.
and most of that knowledge is in people's heads: if you're not
hooked into the mailing lists, mindset and culture, it's almost
impossible to fix problems on your own.
most ordinary users can deal with less dimensions and have a lot
less technically-aware creativity to spare than developers do...
l.
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