OT: Linux flavors...

[Fairlight]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:39:52PM -0400, after drawing runes in goat's blood,
Jay Ashworth cast forth these immortal, mystical words:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 07:34:54PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> 
> Would you change your list bookmark, Mark?  Celestial is roughly as
> fast as seaslug these days, and it gets me in less trouble.  :-)

You wanna know what's -really- funny about that?  I almost bitched at
-you- today for sitll using seaslug, and was going to note that when I hit
reply I'd have to intentionally change it.  I didn't even realise that I
was the originator in this case.  Gack!

I just changed my alias on both machines that I may post from.  Done.
Sorry about that.

> > Trying to use one module across multiple kernel releases is a really bad
> > bet.  I wouldn't do it, personally.
> 
> Didn't give me problem one.

Then you were Very Lucky[tm].

> > I don't think that's a bug, I think it's intentional.  I would go so far as
> > to say it's good design -not- to even try.
> 
> Hmmm... dunno.
> 
> It should *certainly* notice that you have non-stock modules in your
> directory and warn you.

If you don't already know you have them, well...  I dunno mate, I come
from the line of thought that admin tools are there to assist, not to do
everything for you.  I think the line has to be drawn somewhere, and I
think that's about the point I'd draw it on this issue.  Your experiences
on portable modules are not in the majority, I can assure you.  If someone
was told their extra modules from misc/ or wherever had been copied to the
next release, they might be expecting them to work just fine, and that most
certainly may -not- be the case, even in stable trees.  Too much planning
for the administrative tool code.  At some point, the onus is on the actual
admin to make sure it's there at the end of the day.  YMMV.

mark->
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