* MH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > What's about filing a bug against bitchx instead of passively > complaining here...
I'm complaining rather actively (check the archives). My gripe is not with bitchx per se (I've only logged on to irc once or twice last year, I just did a dpkg --purge bitchx), it is with the direction Debian is going, spec. with FUBAR'ing things that weren't broken in the name of luser-friendliness (dexconf, alsaconf, pam'ifying /sbin/halt). I can live with it, if $PACKAGE also installs a small $LIBRARY in case it's going to be used with $OTHER_PACKAGE. In fact, I can't think of a better solution here. The problem is that once you've let this genie out, less cluefull maintainers will sooner or later make their packages depend on e.g. the whole fscking X subsystem, "in case someone wants to run my $foo in xterm". As far as I can tell the bug is between maintainer's chair and keyboard. I don't see how filing a bug against $PACKAGE will fix that, I fully expect that bug to be marked "wontfix". Ridiculing the guy in public, OTOH, might work. Dima (always the optimist) -- Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords -- RISKS 21.37
