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Dear up2date,
I hate you with a passion unsurpassed by any living being. Why? Because I
recently ran you, to update my core system (like you claim to do). When it came
time to select packages to update, I (misguided fool that I am), checked the
"Select All" checkbox, thinking I'd like to just update everything, rather than
trying to pick and choose.
Now you want to do dependency analysis, to include everything that is required,
which seems fscking stupid to me. After all, I chose everything. By definition,
that should need no analysis. Be that as it may, you proceeded to spend enough
time on this task that I had time to go to Starbucks, get a job as a barista,
and make my own damn latte before you finished. But that's not the root cause of
my unalloyed hatred of you.
No, the cause for that is when you ultimately decided that I had a failed
dependency, on some package. But please, don't tell me which top-level selection
(or selections) led to this failed dependency. No, really, I'm keen to guess!
I don't want to simply unselect for the nonce the small handful of troublesome
packages and get on with it. I love playing package selection roulette. It's
half the fun of using you.
Grr! Hate hate hate!
PS Burn in hell forever, you hateful pig!
Yours, hatefully,
--
Timothy Knox <mailto:tdk@xxxxxxxx.xxx>;
"People who are willing to rely on the government to keep them safe
are pretty much standing on Darwin's mat, pounding on the door,
screaming, 'Take me, take me!'"
-- Carl Jacobs, from alt.sysadmin.recovery
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