Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> >> Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one >> of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason >> to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what >> you want. > <SNIP> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon > Alan, > Maybe in the future you'll consider this story: For your > entertainment, please imagine an 82 year old woman who, unknown to > anyone, has somehow gone beyond simple web browsing and email and > managed to teach herself to watch a DVD on her Gentoo laptop. Possibly > she is hard of hearing? This works well for her as she can use > headphones and listen at levels that work for her any time of day or > night. Once you get your head around that picture, please imagine this > user being frustrated for _months_ when her 'no good reason to be > there DVD' goes away. This user feels, for no good technical reason, > that she has somehow hurt her computer and worse worries about the > costs of fixing it. She remains silent, doesn't ask for help and loses > access to something that she enjoys all because someone in the dev > community decides to 'make a change'. > > Not every user (of Gentoo or any other distro) lives in the > rarefied world of a Linux Sys Admin, much less the far more lowly and > infinitely more mundane world I inhabit. My experience is that people > almost always need a little help and almost never ask. > > Over and out, > Mark > >
I have a better question. Why is a 82 year old woman using Gentoo? If she installed Gentoo, updated Gentoo then she must be able to do something with Gentoo, right? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
