From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:55:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:55:32 -0400 Received: from snark.tuxedo.org ([207.106.50.26]:43016 "EHLO snark.thyrsus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 11:55:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:55:51 -0400 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: Alexander Viro Cc: Ingo Oeser , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Why recovering from broken configs is too hard Message-ID: <20010503115551.E31960@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com Mail-Followup-To: "Eric S. Raymond" , Alexander Viro , Ingo Oeser , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010503054349.C28728@thyrsus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from viro@math.psu.edu on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 06:00:08AM -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alexander Viro : > I'm not talking about connectedness of the thing. However, I suspect that > graph has a small subset such that removing it makes it fall apart. Um. So how does that help? -- Eric S. Raymond The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. -- Hitler, April 11 1942, revealing the real agenda of "gun control"