On 07/06/2009 03:57 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: > On 7/6/09 6:10 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > [snip] > >> Introducing side-effects is something to watch out for but >> patching configure instead of the true source is a short term fix, not a >> long term solution. > > *Any* patch should be viewed as a short-term fix. A patch that needs to > persist indefinitely suggests broken maintainership somewhere along the > line--either upstream, of the Fedora package in question, or elsewhere > in Fedora's infrastructure. > <nod> But one of those patches is upstreamable and the other is not. The upstreamable patch is a step on the road to the long term fix. The non-upstreamable one is a dead-end.
-Toshio
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