On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:41:17 +0100, Francesco Riosa
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob is a sys-admin.

Oh yay, a story.

> Bob manage a firewall happily up and running with gentoo, Bob use
> iptables emerged with USE="extensions" because he want and use l7 to let
> users only web browsing on port 80.
> Bob is a good admin so he updates very often his firewall probably with
> "emerge -uDav --newuse world", the day that iptables-1.3 comes out
> *without* l7 support he is running that update, ... but Jenny the nicest
> girl of the whole office maybe of the planet is finally asking him to
> have a coffe with she.

If he is a good admin, he knows how to use package.mask, he knows he
should look at what he is updating before he does it, and the nicest
girl in the whole office would never talk to the sysadmin,

> Bob has sucessfully done that emerge so many times that he decided to
> not loose that opportunity and so tadaaa the screen will left alone and
> all messages outputted from ebuilds ignored.

So I guess Bob isn't realy so smart, eh?

> We can bet that Bob will not be happy after finished to have the coffe.

No. no he wouldn't
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