On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:30 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > Policy is the rules under which people agree to work together. When you > have policies that you simply ignore then you end up with people pointing at > your ignoring of policy as a valid reason for you to ignore policy. That's > why I wrote the second stanze about changing policy. when you update the > policy to reflect the realities that you face, then you make the policies > better for everyone who is trying to make better packaging choices.
Right - we've had this discussion before. Rules have power b/c we give them to them. They are not empowered on their own. That is a political-philosophy question :) > > With a package you have a lot more garbage to maintain - with just > > adding the dep you can phase it out in an update and not have to add any > > obsoletes or conflicts garbage. > > > This argument could be used for every compat package in Fedora as well, > though. Why don't we ship the openssl compat package and the main openssl > packages from a single srpm? B/c the openssl items are not on a horizon that is as a short as 6months. This problem goes away when samba3x gets fixed. -sv _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
