On Sun 23 Nov 2014 at 14:15:17 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/23/2014 2:09 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > It would be nice if you regarded the word "functionally" as an essential > > qualification of "equivalent" or "identical" and not dismiss it. > > What would be nice is if you (and others) would stop claiming that > 'installing systemd, then installing sysvinit-core, then uninstalling > systemd', is *the same* as performing a clean install with sysvinit as > the init system.
I thought you would disregard "functionally" as being a dirty word. :) You have snipped the sentence where I explained what "the same" meant to me. Then you claim I said something different. That's a bit naughty. > I honestly don't care if they are functionally equivalent or not, as it > is beside the point. Your point is that arriving at a particular objective can be done in two (or more) ways. Rather obvious, IMO. Discussing the merits of the routes is besides the point? You could get a lot of mileage out of the netcat example. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141123202346.gv3...@copernicus.demon.co.uk