So this explains the reporter mishaps perfectly then. They take your e-mails, freely change them, and then write their articles :) -Andrei Thorp On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Guilherme M. Nogueira > <g.maionogueira@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: >> >>> pacman cares because pacman will try it's hardest to never ever break >>> your system unless you say so. If pacman has no knowledge of files in >>> your system, it'd be amazingly stupid to blindly overwrite them. What >>> happens if I wrote a big long OOo document and saved it (stupidly) as >>> /usr/bin/mydoc and then pacman decided to install an app named >>> "mydoc". Poof, lost my work. >>> >>> I know the above is a contrived example, but it serves to illustrate >>> the point: pacman is not in control of your system. You are. Pacman >>> will never say "I know better than you, so I'll just replace this with >>> what I think it should be". Instead it will say "woah woah woah... you >>> did something I don't understand. You deal with it and tell me when >>> you figured it out" >>> >> >> These two paragraphs are great, Aaron! >> Would you mind if I add them to the wiki page of Pacman regarding the >> "something: something exists in filesystem" error, or is it too much >> informality for the wiki? > > Feel free to do what you want. All my mails are licensed under the WTFPL[1] > > 1: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING >
