Re: yum question, reverting to old packages.

[Richard Hally <rhally mindspring com>]

Rahul wrote:
> Richard Hally wrote:
> > Rahul wrote:
> > > Richard Hally wrote:
> > >
> > > > Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are 
> > > > not helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm>
> > >
> > > Being sarcastic is very unhelpful and wont motivate anyone to help 
> > > you. Kindly avoid that. 
> > Who died and made you 'list mom'? 
>
> Self elected mostly.
So we can ignore you when we choose to do so. thanks.

> Sarcasm is a valid rhetorical device.
> > Please take care when you criticize other people's style. You're not 
> > perfect by any stretch of the imagination. (and neither an I).
>
> It would be nice to avoid sarcasm if you want to developers to take your 
> suggestions seriously.
So you speak for all developers? I didn't realize you were one. What is 
your day job? PHB-candidate?
> > > Well yeah. 
> > Sarcasm perceived.
>
> You seem to have misunderstood. I accepted what you said.
>
>
> > It would be nice to have RPM rollbacks used more reliably but
> > > thats different from Yum's ability to do RPM downgrades. If RPM can 
> > > get the ability to do downgrades reliably yum can also support it.
> > >
> > > Rahul
> > Let's see if we can get RPM rollbacks and downgrades working and out 
> > of the "nice to have" category.
>
> Sure. Patches accepted.
There you go again - speaking for developers.

Have a nice day,
Richard