Re: "Changes Betty wants made"

Katy Jennison:
> I say things like "that picture want[s] to be over here", too, ...

This sort of personification is common among computer programmers,
I think. Right now in the other window I'm trying to hack a spec file
to work around the problem that Configure, as configured, *wants* to
put the man pages in one place while brp-compress *has a different
idea* of where they should be.

And hey, I think it just worked... oops, no it didn't.
--
Mark Brader | "I'm a little worried about the bug-eater", she said.
Toronto | "We're embedded in bugs, have you noticed?"
msb@xxxxxxx | -- Niven, "The Integral Trees"

My text in this article is in the public domain.
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