On 4/7/2011 3:55 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>> rebuilding RHEL src rpms under RHEL, it should be made
>> public and either fixed or acknowleged as the intended
>> outcome.
>
> Off topic here as to what RHEL and its vendor should or should
> not do, Les.
OK, I'll rephrase. What they do do should be made public.
> And 'self-hosting' has NEVER been a goal of the upstream's
> full product line [and indeed cannot be, as parts of it
> include binary blobs for which sources are not released]
And yet, there are probably people who believe that RH releases sources
that can be rebuilt to usable binaries and make decisions based on that.
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Les Mikesell
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