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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: landley@webofficenow.com
Cc: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 01:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31580.993341145@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0106221013280M.00692@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <0106221013280M.00692@localhost.localdomain>  <20010621160309.A6744@thyrsus.com> <20010622094934.A13075@thyrsus.com> <9gvj2g$khc$1@picard.cistron.nl>


landley@webofficenow.com said:
>  There's a really simple solution to that.  Eric can just make up his
> own help  file entries that are wildly inaccurate and actively
> insulting to whoever it  is who owns the symbol. 

Heh. Lets not be too harsh though. Chasing people who add config options
without help text is a thankless task for the most part, but I'm grateful to
ESR for doing it. I must admit I was actually counting on him to catch the
ones I'd missed.

It was only when he ignored my patch which removed an offending symbol and
explained the status of a couple of false positives, and kept asking about
them instead of placing them on his 'ignore' list that it became irritating.

I objected, he assures me they're on the ignore list now, and we're all 
happy.

--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-24  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-21 19:49 Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5 Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 19:55 ` Russell King
2001-06-21 20:03   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22  8:13   ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:49     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:47       ` Russell King
2001-06-22 13:54         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:54           ` Russell King
2001-06-22 14:28             ` Brent D. Norris
2001-06-22 14:00       ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-06-22 14:13         ` Rob Landley
2001-06-24  0:05         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-06-22 15:43       ` Alan Cox
2001-06-22 16:01         ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 13:56     ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 14:24       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:54       ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 16:27         ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 17:12           ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-21 22:22 ` Nicolas Pitre
2001-06-21 22:40   ` Russell King
2001-06-21 22:51     ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22  8:24     ` David Woodhouse
2001-06-22 13:51       ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22  2:15   ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-06-22 14:47 Holzrichter, Bruce

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