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flysideways
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 Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:58 pm Post subject: the occasional outright lie |
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| devmanual.gentoo.org wrote: | Master Index
This document is an ongoing work in progress. It contains gaps, inaccuracies, omissions, typos and the occasional outright lie. The intent is to make a handbook giving developers and users correct, detailed, up to date technical content.
Contributions are encouraged. See the Contributing to This Document section for how to get started. If you have any corrections, suggestions or improvements please look at the bug list and file a new bug. The Contributions section lists specific contributions to this manual. |
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timeBandit
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Fact: The statement you emphasized could itself be a lie. So it is true even if it is otherwise not. 
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John R. Graham
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| Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:39 pm Post subject: |
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Of course, timeBandit could be lying.
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ian.au
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:57 am Post subject: |
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| I have it on good authority that half the lies you tell, aren't true. |
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Goverp
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At least I'm 100% consistent. Every statement I make is true.
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flysideways
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| All, thanks for the laughs. |
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Juippisi
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| And now for a more serious answer: The devmanual started as a means to collect development-related guidelines (not policies) into a single place. Since then, it's grown to be accepted as a canon piece of directive. The line you pasted, hasn't been changed since the devmanual was first spawned. While it should, it's also true even now devmanual holds some outdated info. So... |
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