Breaking deps deliberately

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 14:22:23 UTC 2009



On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

>
> Sounds like a sensible guideline?
>
>> and I think we need to ask if your provenpackager  status should be
>> re-evaluated.
>
> For what?  Breaking a non-existant guideline in order to help people
> who kept asking me for Fedora 10 support for libguestfs?  Maybe we
> should 'discipline' people for breaking other unwritten rules too,
> such as adding packages to Fedora when sitting in bed or not correctly
> dressed.
>

I think it is implicit within the definition of 'provenpackager' that you 
understand the basic rules of how the system works.

You couldn't be a 'provenphysicist' for example without understanding the 
laws of thermodynamics.

-sv




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