[gentoo-dev] Re: Live source based ebuild proposals

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> posted
20090213235351.381cffcd@snowmobile, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13 Feb 2009
23:53:51 +0000:

[>> > Luca Barbato wrote...]

>> >> Then if you continued to read you'll notice that
>> > 
>> > ...you got so incoherent I gave up
>> 
>> Relying to offense because I just pointed out something you dislikes
>> since you cannot find a argumentative way reply isn't exactly polite or
>> mature.
> 
> No. Really. Again. You've been steadily talking nonsense on this whole
> issue. Please step back, start again and clearly and concisely explain
> in coherent English how you solve the simple example I gave earlier in
> the thread. I am far from the only person who hasn't managed to work out
> your explanation of this simple case so far.

FWIW, while I'd not choose "incoherent" and "nonsense" as those are 
loaded terms that don't tend to make a productive debate if that is 
intended, I lost Luca's argument at this point as well.  Now if it was 
just me I'd believe it was simply over my head.  However, if a lead 
developer of one of our three package managers gets lost as well, maybe 
it isn't him, and maybe it isn't me.  Somewhere, the logic thread simply 
got too difficult to follow and we're both lost.

So Luca, I'd appreciate it too if you tried again from this point in the 
original stub-quoted above, as I really am trying to follow this.  I 
don't have a position on this but I'd like to. =:^)

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