[Slackbuilds-users] Why did my SSLeay-SlackBuild get edited?

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Wed Nov 5 16:46:36 UTC 2008


On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:21:19AM -0600, Robby Workman wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:03:07 +0100
> "Manuel Reimer" <Manuel.Reimer at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Why did you change this part? Why do you think it's a cleaner way to
> > do things, to not tell tar to ignore the permissions in the archive,
> > but to allow tar to extract with silly permissions just to be able to
> > fix up the crap in a second step?
> 
> That's just the way we do it.  Is there a *technical* problem with our
> way, or are we going to argue about the best color to paint the bike
> shed?

C'mon.  You might not have been asked in the nicest way, but you were
asked a question.  "Because I said so", is not an answer.  And 
Parkinson's Law doesn't apply, because *any* line in a short shell 
script cannot be called trivial.

--paul w


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