'Twas brillig, and Tux99 at 25/03/11 13:42 did gyre and gimble: > > > Quote: Colin Guthrie wrote on Fri, 25 March 2011 14:36 > >> It was Donald Knuth who said "Premature optimization is the root of >> all >> evil", and the same can be said of "Speculative Packaging" IMO! > > Actually you just made my point here, excluding qt3-devel out of 'neatness' > is quite clearly premature optimization, therefore "the root of all evil" > as you wisely quote... :)
"optimization" and "concious decision" are two very different things, but feel free to distort it to make yourself feel better if you like! And I'm not going to get into a debate about semantics here. Such debates are for late nights and a few good whiskies... :p Col -- Colin Guthrie mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]