From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] The war continues.
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 00:37:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160318003757.2a293eec@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56EB4B18.5030902@verizon.net>
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 20:26:00 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
> >>>>Then you should understand the need for detailed error reports and
> reading the output from the various commands.
>
> I always set verbosity to very high or max...
What's the point if you don't include the output is your posts/rants?
Anyway, all verbose does is hide the important messages among a load of
trivial messages about everything working as it should.
> Back in the good old days there was this OS called DOS. All of it's
> commands told you what they were and what they were doing by default,
> and were, almost universally quite enjoyable to use. =\
>
> These days you just get the next command prompt, and have no idea how
> much your previous command might have deleted or otherwise screwed up.
Succeed quietly, fail noisily, it's the Unix way.
--
Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-18 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-17 14:55 [gentoo-user] The war continues Alan Grimes
2016-03-17 15:12 ` William Ernesto Cárdenas Gómez
2016-03-17 16:20 ` Max R.D. Parmer
2016-03-18 0:18 ` [gentoo-user] Confessional: how I generally use emerge Alan Grimes
2016-03-18 0:37 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2016-03-18 1:08 ` Alan Grimes
2016-03-18 1:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-18 17:41 ` Dale
2016-03-18 23:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-19 3:31 ` Alan Grimes
2016-03-19 9:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-19 14:58 ` Francisco Ares
2016-03-18 18:43 ` [gentoo-user] " »Q«
2016-03-18 21:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-03-19 16:43 ` »Q«
2016-03-19 17:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-03-19 18:25 ` »Q«
2016-03-20 1:55 ` Dale
2016-03-18 22:00 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2016-03-20 22:22 ` Jonathan Callen
2016-03-17 15:20 ` [gentoo-user] Re: The war continues Grant Edwards
2016-03-17 16:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2016-03-18 8:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2016-03-18 12:23 ` Philip Webb
2016-03-18 16:29 ` Alan Grimes
2016-03-18 16:43 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 17:47 ` Dale
2016-03-18 18:29 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 18:47 ` Mick
2016-03-18 20:37 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 21:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-03-19 3:08 ` wabenbau
2016-03-19 6:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-03-19 9:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-20 16:32 ` wabenbau
2016-03-20 0:37 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2016-03-20 17:01 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 18:49 ` Dale
2016-03-18 20:36 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 23:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-19 2:51 ` Dale
2016-03-19 9:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-19 9:52 ` Dale
2016-03-19 14:56 ` »Q«
2016-03-19 15:24 ` Daniel Frey
2016-03-19 16:44 ` Dale
2016-03-19 16:50 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-03-18 19:38 ` Philip Webb
2016-03-18 20:34 ` wabenbau
2016-03-18 23:35 ` Philip Webb
2016-03-19 3:34 ` wabenbau
2016-03-17 18:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2016-03-18 0:26 ` Alan Grimes
2016-03-18 0:37 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2016-03-17 19:23 ` [gentoo-user] Simply approach:: " James
2016-03-19 3:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Fast Turtle
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