On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:57 PM, Kenneth Porter wrote: > On Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:46 AM -0400 Jeff Johnson > <n3npq at mac.com> wrote: > >> The rawhide *.spec is targeted at rawhide, not everywhere, because >> of the >> branch structure in use by Fedora. That has nothing whatsoever to >> do with >> whether Fedora is "suicidal" or "RPM sux!", there's a perfectly >> obvious >> engineering explanation for why the RFE was declined. > > If the Fedora branch structure precludes compatibility with other > distros, should CentOS users avoid use of Rawhide packages when > seeking newer upstream packages, and instead migrate to another > repository? Doesn't this discourage greater testing of Rawhide? > Only those who use a "pure" Rawhide distro will have any incentive > to use its packages. All valid and important points. Old Russian saying: Don't blame a dog for its master. Barking at Joe Orton for refusing an RFE and somehow trolling/spinning that into "Fedora is sucidal!" and "RPM sux!" is a waste of time and energy. And I agree that "RPM sux!" fwiw ... 73 de Jeff > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel