CentOS - Feb 2011 - 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 at
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 at 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:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file>.
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.

-- 
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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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