Will Rogers: Kai Schaetzl may be ignorant about kill files (was: how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?)
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
This wasn't the first instance. This guy has recently started a habit of copying mails (that are not his own it seems) that trip him off right to this list. That is bad practice. I do not want to get more of this.
Kai
Kai, as you may not already know, Will Rogers said "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects."
e.g., I expressed my ignorance about just how far the binary compatibility with RedHat extended within the CentOS community and have learned from the questions posed. I think it fair to say the objective of binary compatibility has greater weight with CentOS folks than completeness and correctness, but that's JMHO and like Dennis Miller, I could be wrong about that.
As Will's fellow OKie, if you don't already know about kill files, I'll help Will do posthumously what he might have done if he were alive today reading this CentOS list, namely refer you to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file.
I am somewhat saddened that Browning's "“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?” doesn't seem enough to cause sufficient interest in an auxiliary repo consisting exclusively of current release intrinsic functions like BIND, DHCP, et al.
Perhaps the most encouraging remark came from Karanbir, namely:
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org wrote:
[1]: I say that with a pinch of salt though - EL6 is a tad overdue. A lot of new projects and services need a codebase newer than whats on offer in C5.
kind regards/ldv
Larry,
Celebrating the fact that many of those replying to your thread agree that it's not off topic by turning this into a personal feud is very much not done IMO. Please refrain from mentioning people's names in subject lines just to rub it in that people agree with you and not the other person. (And that post about something breaking on SL without any references wasn't very helpful really.)
Even though I agree your original post is sufficiently on topic it is very much an FAQ. CentOS's stand on binary compatibility wrt upstream has been made very clear from the start.
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 09:09 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote:
Suggesting that kill files are a solution to poor poster behaviour is just silly. Nothing wrong with occasionally reeducating posters to mailing lists how they could behave instead of having to rely on such symptom fighting.
Leonard.
I've not followed this thread, but I had to pipe in when I see someone calling out another user in the subject like that. We're supposed to be mature, reasonable people here. It doesn't matter if you didn't intend to come off crass; You did.
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