On 11/04/11 20:16, Digimer wrote: > > /putting on asbestos pants. > > each release is more complex than the last. The web of dependency grows, > so the reverse-engineering takes longer and longer. > This is just complete nonsense. You clearly have no understanding of the processes involved in rebuilding RHEL. CentOS doesn't reverse-engineer anything, they simply rebuild the upstream sources. It's not rocket science. > Perhaps the tact to take is to apply pressure to the upstream provider > to release the build details? I am sure that many folks who start with > CentOS, grow to be large and move to RH proper. So there is, I would > venture, an argument to be made that RH providing this info to CentOS > and helping CentOS thrive would be beneficial for their business. >