Re: [gentoo-user] audacity-2.0.5 failed to compile

[Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@outlook.com>]

On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 12:57:37 PM wraeth wrote:
> On 02/09/15 12:23, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 9:22:44 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:05:09PM -0600, thelma@sys-concept.com
> >> wrote:
> >>> On 09/01/2015 04:55 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> >>>> Since you're too stupid to follow advice, you need to rebuild
> >>>>
> > *EVERYTHING*
> >>>> that linked against libjpeg (in this case x11-libs/wxGTK).
> >>>
> >>> This kind of language does not belong here. If you can not
> >>> refrain yourself making sarcastic remarks don't make any
> >>> comments.
> >>
> >> This language occasionally belongs on this list.
> >>
> >>> I would appreciate you stop reading my posts at all. I don't
> >>> belong to Gentoo community.
> >>
> >> OK. Maybe we all got off on the wrong foot here. When you ask for
> >> help, can you please provide:
> >>
> >> * the *exact* command you ran * the output of `emerge --info' *
> >> the whole error, not just the part you think is relevant
> >>
> >> It is incredibly difficult for us to help when we only get a
> >> small piece of what's going on with your system.
> >>
> >> Alec
> >>
> >
> > He was told what the problem was on his first post about
> > libjpeg-turbo, he didn't just ignore it but posted the wrong
> > solution with a big SOLVED on the subject that only serves to
> > mislead future users of this list. On his last post about this same
> > error (different package) I politely told him to go back and follow
> > the advise on that post, again he ignored it and posted a bogus
> > solution (it worked because he rebuilt tiff, perl had nothing to do
> > with it). revdep-rebuild may (or may not) fix it now, but the right
> > solution is to remove or fix the obsolete package to depend on
> > virtual/jpeg, update world properly, and then revdep-rebuild to
> > undo this mess.
> 
> So someone posted an issue(s), then marked it solved when they got a
> workaround which may not resolve the actual issue but got them past
> their initial problem(s).
> 
> Your argument to that is that their "false solution" will mislead
> future readers of the list. Doesn't the same apply to insulting
> participants of the list? Not to mention this comes shortly after a
> discussion about attracting new blood into the Gentoo community.
> 
> You don't have to participate in this thread. You could also simply
> say "I said in your previous posts that you need to do /this/."
> 
> We should never resort to insults and name calling if we want this to
> be a productive list. If there's a problem with someone, either stop
> replying to their messages, take it up with them directly (and
> diplomatically), or bring it up with the list owner [1,2].

I have no excuse for name calling, that was wrong and I should've handled it 
better. Hopefully s/he'll get over it. 

It's arguable if that makes the list less productive, but certainly posting a 
new thread every few hours about the same issue will make it less productive.

> 1: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
> 2: gentoo-user+owner@lists.gentoo.org
> 
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> wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au>
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Fernando Rodriguez