On Thursday 09 February 2006 20:13, Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
This is for all those people involved in the recent flamewars, especially the "RTFM/Google" flamewars. Read this link that I've posted below, which points to the "KDM - KDE root problem" thread on the Gentoo-User mailing list. I think people should notice the obvious difference in the attitude of both the original poster, who's a newbie asking what may seem like a stupid question to the experienced users, and these very experienced users who are replying to him.
There is nothing wrong with telling a newbie to RTFM or Google for his problems. Thats how things are in the *nix world. This isn't paid support that we should get off our lazy arses and spoonfeed teh newbies :)
Besides, its become the habit of this list to pick up a seemingly unrelated and trivial point and create a huge (useless) discussion over it. Nobody is an exception to this.