Feature or bug? (strange?) yum behaviour

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 19:24:18 UTC 2008


Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:57 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>>
>>> Fedora is just a front line consumer of what yum upstream is doing..but Fedora 
>>> is not yum upstream. Just as Fedora is a front line consumer of 
>>> something larger like gnome. 
>> Are you saying that Fedora will publish any kind of cruft an upstream 
>> developer cranks out?  I was trying to give you guys some credit...
> 
> Wow, insulting multiple groups of people all at the same time ... this
> is an achievement ...

I really didn't mean it as an insult.  It's just realistic to observe 
that an occasional bug or even a bad idea slips into the upstream code 
repositories.  But it only bothers a lot of people when it is accepted 
into a mainstream distribution without being fixed.  I'm in awe of your 
power here and just asking that it be used responsibly.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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