[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

[Peter Jones]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 13:21 -0700, Mike Bird wrote:
> > I suspect this is user error, but I'll be happy to have a look at it
> > once you've filed the bug with this information.
> 
> Why should anyone jump through all those hoops, Peter?  All the relevant
> bug information was in the original email.  You want the solution too?

Jumping through hoops?  Filing a bug report and including the details of
the setup you claim triggers a bug is "jumping through hoops"?

NONE of the relevant information to this bug is in the "original mail"
-- whichever that refers to; it's not in any of them as far as I can
see.  You appear to just be making things up.

>
[irrelevant and incorrect tangential straw-man about mdadm skipped]

Not only is this not a problem, but you're being insulting.  And right
now, you're also switching subject and being evasive.  As far as I can
tell, you're doing it not because you have some real bug happening, but
simply because you need attention.

This is not the place for that.

> Also check that all the cases of missing quotes are actually safe.  Then
> read the Lilo source code and see how it should be done.  Then fix Grub.
> 
> Have I ever written code that bad?  Sure.  Some of my one-off scripts
> were undoubtedly a lot worse.  But I don't try to force the world to use
> them when there's a better alternative.
> 
> Meantime, why not let us old farts use Lilo?

Because when asked why lilo is required, you can not or will not give
any meaningful answer.

So, to be clear here, I'm not reading or replying to email from you any
more.  File bugs.  If they don't demonstrate any real problem, or if you
refuse to add details that are requested, I'm going to close them.

I've tried to be nice to you, because you didn't seem to understand the
process of how to get bugs fixed, or how development works in general.
I've tried to explain how things work when you seemed to be confused.
I've tried to ignore the fact that you've constantly mocked, called
names, ridiculed, and insulted myself and other developers and testers.
I've largely been ignoring the fact that you constantly imply, and
essentially state, that anybody who disagrees with you is dishonest,
malicious towards Fedora, and idiotic.

But I'm done; it's just not worth the trouble.  You refuse to be helped
in any way, and you dictate bad solutions to solve problems that don't
exist in software that you clearly don't understand.

Welcome to my kill file.
-- 
        Peter