udev

[Les Mikesell]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>> Note that I have the 1.4.0.99-fc5.i586 version of Skype installed (yes,
>> an i586 package on 64-bit machines running 64-bit Fedora).
> 
> Why on earth does skype update their rpm for an obsolete version of Fedora,
> and then give this as the version for Fedora-7 ?
> Strange.

I'm not at all surprised that people don't want to rebuild and 
redistribute things at the pace fedora changes.  The unix spec was 
pretty much complete circa 1989 when AT&T published version 3 of SVID. 
If something works once, why should you have to repackage it all the time?

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   Les Mikesell
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