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From: Collins Richey <crichey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] proposed patch
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 07:09:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e00942e405022206096167aa4b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050222115506.GA13882@phaenix.haell.com>

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:55:06 -0800, Drake Wyrm <wyrm@haell.com> wrote:

> This is actually an excellent illustration of my point. The patch I
> mentioned as an example changes almost nothing. It adds one file and
> touches the makefiles so that the build process notices it. Its
> inclusion would be completely benign.
> 

Sit back in your chair and think about that at least twice! I've been
working in the computer industry for 30+ years, and I can't even begin
to count the times when a total outage was followed by the excuse "But
I just changed one line!".

-- 
 Collins
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-22 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <36acd65c050220230928e76206@mail.gmail.com>
2005-02-21 10:34 ` [gentoo-dev] proposed patch Aaron Walker
2005-02-21 17:58 ` Greg KH
2005-02-22  3:01   ` Drake Wyrm
2005-02-22  7:40     ` Greg KH
2005-02-22 11:55       ` Drake Wyrm
2005-02-22 14:09         ` Collins Richey [this message]

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