Re: Missing help entries in 2.4.6pre5

Eric S. Raymond (esr@thyrsus.com)
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:54:26 -0400


Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:49:34AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > You're a bit irritated. That's good. I *want* people who don't write
> > help entries for their configuration symbols to be a bit irritated.
> > That way, they might get around to actually doing what they ought to.
>
> The people you're irritating are not the people who create these symbols
> though, so its a little pointless.

Irritating port managers a little is good, too. Sometimes, they can get
the right person to move. It's happened before.

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