On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 1:06 PM Nicolas Kovacs <info at microlinux.fr> wrote:> Le 08/04/2018 ? 13:54, Nicolas Kovacs a ?crit : > > As far as I can tell, there would be several solutions to this problem. > > > > 1. Ask the EPEL maintainers to keep the application up-to-date. > > > > 2. Patch the darn thing so I don't get the annoying popup. > > > > 3. Maintain my own up-to-date version of XScreenSaver in my private repo. > > > > Any thoughts about this? > > I just got the following response from Jamie Zawinski, the XScreenSaver > developer: > > "Yes, your distro sucks, and I wish they would stop redistributing my > software if they refuse to keep it up to date." > > He apparently had the same reaction with the Debian guys.Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn?t say something anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a bit. I will see if the EPEL version can be updated. Also to make sure that he doesn?t get the bugs since he doesn?t want them :)> > Niki > > -- > Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables > 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat > Site : https://www.microlinux.fr > Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr > Mail : info at microlinux.fr > T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Stephen J Smoogen.
Le 08/04/2018 ? 21:47, Stephen John Smoogen a ?crit :> Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn?t say > something anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a > bit. I will see if the EPEL version can be updated. Also to make sure > that he doesn?t get the bugs since he doesn?t want them :)Thanks very much. Judging from the follow-up mail I just got, the guy's just your average drama queen who believes his software is more critical to any Linux system than the kernel, the libc and the shell combined. Yeah, updating the package in EPEL would be nice. Cheers, Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
Le 08/04/2018 ? 21:47, Stephen John Smoogen a ?crit?:> Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn?t say something > anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a bit.This mister JWZ just blogged and tweeted loudly about it, and it looks like he hates CentOS as much as he hates Debian. Coming from a guy whose blog looks like a russian porn site from around 1998, I guess this is some form of praise. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/04/looks-like-todays-the-day-that-centos-users-lose-their-god-damned-minds/ I'm a bit tired of these drama queens. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32
Yikes, that's a good baseline for drama. That twitter profile picture should be a big enough red flag Archived for posterity: https://web.archive.org/web/20180408204046/https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/04/looks-like-todays-the-day-that-centos-users-lose-their-god-damned-minds/ && https://web.archive.org/web/20180408204243/https:/twitter.com/jwz/status/983061118863032320 R. S. Tyler Schroder -----Original Message----- From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Kovacs Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2018 4:28 PM To: centos at centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] XScreenSaver Le 08/04/2018 ? 21:47, Stephen John Smoogen a ?crit :> Yeah that is pretty classic JWZ... well except he didn?t say something > anatomically impossible. I think he may have mellowed a bit.This mister JWZ just blogged and tweeted loudly about it, and it looks like he hates CentOS as much as he hates Debian. Coming from a guy whose blog looks like a russian porn site from around 1998, I guess this is some form of praise. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/04/looks-like-todays-the-day-that-centos-users-lose-their-god-damned-minds/ I'm a bit tired of these drama queens. Niki -- Microlinux - Solutions informatiques durables 7, place de l'?glise - 30730 Montpezat Site : https://www.microlinux.fr Blog : https://blog.microlinux.fr Mail : info at microlinux.fr T?l. : 04 66 63 10 32 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 22:28:04 +0200 Nicolas Kovacs wrote:> This mister JWZ just blogged and tweeted loudly about it,He apparently doesn't understand what his own software does, either: "They had to CLICK OK on a dialog box after they rebooted!!" The dialog box comes up when you log in, not when you reboot, and there is no OK in the box to click on; it just goes away on its own. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com