On Feb 22, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > It is the whole purpose of the CentOS Project. > It *IS* a bit daft not to be be permitted to modify dependencies. Not changing sources (or risking behavioral changes with fepping creaturism) is a different matter. > The bottom line is, people can figure out how to recompile the packages > just like we did ... but we don't change the sources. This is not going > to change. If you want the sources changed, figure out what needs to be > changed and ping on the upstream people as required to change their > source files. > > They are the ones who can: > > 1. Make the distro self hosting > 2. Get rid of hidden build requirements > Fixing "hidden" (or more likely missing) dependencies without being able to just add what is needed is a bit arduous I'm sure. 73 de jeff -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4645 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20110222/b70cff85/attachment-0007.p7s>