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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: change and improvement
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:21:56 +0100
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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.
> >=20
> > But if someone else snuck into your house and flipped your locks every
> > week?
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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.
>=20
> 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 a=
nd=20
in doing so it caters less and less for Gentoo geeky users and more and mor=
e=20
for mainstream ignoramuses. :p
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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