I once sent one of these critical/mean emails to this email list before too (sorry Samuel that my ire was once directed toward you. I was being a complete little sh*t at the time).
Jeffrey probably is just really interested in the project, and he probably let his enthusiasm carry him a bit away. Jeffrey building/maintaining/developing an operating system is one of the *hardest* software challenges. Most of the Hurd developers do it for fun and are not paid for their work. If you find something that is not working, then great! Please send a software patch our way! You will probably get more help, if you speak gently and kindly. Thanks, Joshua July 25, 2020 10:17 AM, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> wrote: > Jeffrey Walton, le sam. 25 juil. 2020 10:09:24 -0400, a ecrit: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 9:45 AM Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> >> wrote: >> >> Samuel Thibault, le sam. 25 juil. 2020 15:40:28 +0200, a ecrit: >>> Also, distributions often have their own way of doing various things, so >>> better follow their own documentation, for instance >>> https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install >>> for Debian GNU/Hurd. >> >> Meaning: the information about ifconfig is there for Debian GNU/Hurd >> systems. >> >> That page is absolute bullshit. > > Calling names is not welcome. > >> Who the hell names ifcofig something else (except Debian HURD). >> Would the genius who made that decision like to step forward and claim >> their Darwin award? > > *Nobody* did. > > I won't spend the time telling you the story behind it, since you don't > even seem to possibly consider that it is not actually a decision, but a > pending TODO. > >> Stop wasting user's time and your time. I think HURD's standard ISO >> should include https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install, and >> create a soft link from inetutils-ifconfig to ifconfig. > > Stop wasting maintainers' time by calling them names, and actually help > with what you'd like to see done. > > Did you read the README file that was *next* to the ISO image? Which ISO > image did you actually download? Don't expect maintainers to magically > fix issues by just handwaving about them. > > Samuel
