On Aug 4, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Do they really consider backwards-compatibility to be a distro- >> specific hack? > > 3 lines in a spec file? It's maintainable, sustainable and not a > very user unfriendly thing to do. > > Sounds suicidal to me. > > Funny. Suicide is for mortals. > Please stop the histrionics, chicken little. The sky is not falling ... Joe Orton is merely remarking that a patch in the "rawhide" branch does not help other branches like "f9", "f8", etc etc, ... Do the math: Maintaining a patch in a "rawhide" spec file that never appears in other, commonly used branches of a VCS is pointless. 73 de Jeff