The parent comment is not flamebait; it is a correction which is required far too often in the context of native English speakers. The AC should have been more diplomatic, but that doesn't invalidate the point.
The summary contains yet another example of my number one pet peeve as a copy-editor: “do” being used as a generic verb. English is not Perl; some expressions are simply wrong in English. As opposed to “Diaspora, the privacy-respecting OSS social network, did a code release last week,” the correct form of the opening sentence is “Diaspora, the privacy-respecting OSS social network, released code last week.”
I am a much better writer and editor than I am a programmer, which probably means I'm the only person on Slashdot who gives a damn about the error discussed in this post. Nevertheless, it's important that every geek do [generic verb to describe a generic action --Ed.] what he or she can to fight the onset of the “idiocracy.”
Your first point agrees with what I said. Your second point doesn't necessarily dispute my use of the phrase "more or less modular", though it greatly exaggerates the nature of software dependencies. More often than not, you do not need to update a program's dependencies in order to correct a security vulnerability. If Frozen Bubble introduces a vulnerable online play mode, its correction need not involve SDL.
Furthermore, security vulnerabilities involving linked libraries aren't difficult to resolve. The gentoolkit package, which ought to be part of the main installation, provides the command revdep-rebuild to address exactly this issue (it also provides the aforementioned etc-update). Simply supply the library name as an argument and all programs which depend on it will be rebuilt, certainly not difficult. The time required to perform this operation can be greatly reduced through the use of the Gentoo Reference Platform to skip the compilation process.
You don't have to emerge anything after installation, though you should stay on top of security alerts. You can easily leave your system alone, Portage just makes it easier to stay up to date in a more or less modular fashion. In other words, you don't have to wait six months and download five CD images to stay current from the bottom up.
My perscription drugs are already as much as I'm willing to put up with (muscle relaxers don't play well with others), so maybe I'd be more Animal than Gonzo ("Gonzo" comes naturally to Animal). Where do I sign up? Who wants to hire me?
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The parent comment is not flamebait; it is a correction which is required far too often in the context of native English speakers. The AC should have been more diplomatic, but that doesn't invalidate the point.
The summary contains yet another example of my number one pet peeve as a copy-editor: “do” being used as a generic verb. English is not Perl; some expressions are simply wrong in English. As opposed to “Diaspora, the privacy-respecting OSS social network, did a code release last week,” the correct form of the opening sentence is “Diaspora, the privacy-respecting OSS social network, released code last week.”
I am a much better writer and editor than I am a programmer, which probably means I'm the only person on Slashdot who gives a damn about the error discussed in this post. Nevertheless, it's important that every geek do [generic verb to describe a generic action --Ed.] what he or she can to fight the onset of the “idiocracy.”
Dear Anonymous Illiterate Coward,
Your first point agrees with what I said. Your second point doesn't necessarily dispute my use of the phrase "more or less modular", though it greatly exaggerates the nature of software dependencies. More often than not, you do not need to update a program's dependencies in order to correct a security vulnerability. If Frozen Bubble introduces a vulnerable online play mode, its correction need not involve SDL.
Furthermore, security vulnerabilities involving linked libraries aren't difficult to resolve. The gentoolkit package, which ought to be part of the main installation, provides the command revdep-rebuild to address exactly this issue (it also provides the aforementioned etc-update). Simply supply the library name as an argument and all programs which depend on it will be rebuilt, certainly not difficult. The time required to perform this operation can be greatly reduced through the use of the Gentoo Reference Platform to skip the compilation process.
Disdainfully,
Robstafarian
Rubbish!
You don't have to emerge anything after installation, though you should stay on top of security alerts. You can easily leave your system alone, Portage just makes it easier to stay up to date in a more or less modular fashion. In other words, you don't have to wait six months and download five CD images to stay current from the bottom up.
My perscription drugs are already as much as I'm willing to put up with (muscle relaxers don't play well with others), so maybe I'd be more Animal than Gonzo ("Gonzo" comes naturally to Animal). Where do I sign up? Who wants to hire me?
Mitch: "I want you to think about what you've done Kent....and stop playing with yourself."
Kent [looking up]: "It is God."
I've been a movie geek longer than I've been a computer geek, and I'm pedagogic even by UNIX standards.
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