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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:21:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110062122.05522.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E8E04B3.6080906@gmail.com>

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On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 20:42:43 Dale wrote:
> Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > On 10/06/2011 04:20 AM, Jonas de Buhr wrote:
> >> most of the "oh it's so weird"-whining often comes from just not being
> >> used to it. flip your door lock upside down - you'll hate it with
> >> passion for a week and then you won't even notice. flip it again and
> >> the process will repeat.
> > 
> > But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks every
> > week?
> > 
> > This one change won't be catastrophic, but I will probably spend a good
> > eight hours researching, testing, implementing, and documenting it. In
> > the end, *if everything goes according to plan*, stuff will work exactly
> > how it does now.
> > 
> > If Grub were the only package to do this -- fine, whatever. But next
> > week it will be something else. I don't know what my point is, but it
> > feels good to bitch about it.
> 
> This is how I feel about the initramfs thingy and /usr and /var.  What
> is next?  I am pretty sure it will be something tho.

I share your pain.  :-(

I'm not sure if this a sign of me getting (even) older, or Linux maturing and 
in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more and more 
for mainstream ignoramuses.  :p

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-06 20:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 100+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-04  9:49 [gentoo-user] Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Dale
2011-10-04 10:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-04 10:16   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-04 12:56     ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-05 16:20       ` ny6p01
2011-10-05 16:47         ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-05 23:18           ` Peter Humphrey
2011-10-06  8:12             ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-06 11:01               ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-06 13:47                 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-06 15:17                   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-06 15:25                     ` Michael Mol
2011-10-06 15:35                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-06 15:37                       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-06 16:40                       ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-10-07  0:08                         ` Peter Humphrey
2011-10-07  0:42                           ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07  7:38                           ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-06  8:20             ` [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement (was: Is grub2 stable and who uses it?) Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-06 19:27               ` [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-06 19:42                 ` Dale
2011-10-06 20:21                   ` Mick [this message]
2011-10-07  3:19                     ` Dale
2011-10-06 21:00                 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-06 21:23                   ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-06 21:30                     ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-06 22:33                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-06 23:42                     ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-07  0:55                       ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07  7:36                         ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-07 13:59                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 14:46                             ` Brennan Shacklett
2011-10-07 15:03                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 16:16                             ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-10-07 17:02                               ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 19:15                             ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-07  8:47                         ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-10-07 13:43                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 14:29                         ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-10-07 14:55                           ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07 15:18                             ` Dale
2011-10-07 15:43                               ` Paul Hartman
2011-10-07  1:41                       ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-10-07  1:40                   ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-07  3:32                     ` Dale
2011-10-07  3:39                       ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07  4:42                         ` Michael Orlitzky
2011-10-07  5:01                           ` Michael Mol
2011-10-07  5:09                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-07 19:11                           ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-07 19:20                             ` Dale
2011-10-04 14:35   ` [gentoo-user] Re: Is grub2 stable and who uses it? Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 14:53     ` Dale
2011-10-04 20:13       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-04 20:52         ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 21:20       ` walt
2011-10-04 21:26         ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 15:08     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 18:31       ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 18:56         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 20:33           ` pk
2011-10-04 20:50           ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 20:53             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 21:02               ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 21:14                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 21:24                   ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 21:32                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 22:14                       ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-04 22:21                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05 13:55                           ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-05 14:33                             ` Pandu Poluan
2011-10-05 14:46                               ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-05 15:01                                 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-05 15:29                                 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-05 16:56                                 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05 18:42                                   ` Grant Edwards
2011-10-05 19:10                                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05 19:33                                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-05 14:36                             ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-10-05 16:51                             ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05  6:54                       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-04 21:33                   ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-04 21:46                     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-04 22:04                       ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-10-05  0:09                       ` Dale
2011-10-05  3:16                         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05  8:26                     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-04 20:11       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-04 20:36         ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2011-10-05  8:31         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-04 22:31     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-06 12:51     ` Harry Putnam
2011-10-06 13:03       ` Tanstaafl
2011-10-06 13:51       ` Neil Bothwick
2011-10-06 17:48         ` Harry Putnam
2011-10-06 19:15           ` Alan McKinnon
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2011-10-07  3:36 [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement Michael Mol
2011-10-07  7:25 ` Dale
2011-10-08  7:04   ` Mick
2011-10-08 13:52     ` Dale

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