On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:46:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Friday, 24 August 2007 at 13:31, Axel Thimm wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:38:59AM +0200, Robert Scheck wrote: > > > IMAO this is nothing that has to be discussed at advisory board. Or are we > > > going to discuss glibc vs. uclibc or similar things there, too? Thanks. > > > > If the board had decided in the past to chose using only glibc because > > the developer of uclibc has become actively non-cooperative, then we > > sure would do so. The rpm5 political issue has been too often an issue > > of the board in the past, and we should try to keep it there, in the > > past. > > > > There is no benefit in Fedora carrying an alternative package to a > > critical base system component with an anti-upstream. At the very > > least we derail the efforts of the in-house rpm development. > > > > That's all a political discussion. The technical divergencies follow > > from the non-cooperation policy. > > > > FWIW some of the decisions that made rpm5 incompatible to Fedora/RHEL > > were made known to rpm5's developer beforehand and he didn't care > > about it. In fact if you just try to conatct the devloper and say that > > this and this is an issue in Fedora and whether he could make that a > > compile time switch you will probably get very nasty vocal attributes > > in return. > > That depends on who contacts him. To me, he's been quite approachable, > but I imagine there are some @redhat folks he won't talk to. IMHO your > generalization is unfounded. I don't have a redhat.com address, contacted him in a friendly manner, pointed out that making rpm behave like dpkg would break Fedora and RHEL and was accused of premature ejaculation. Pointing out that this was a rude remark he started practicing his French and Greek on me. So this is not a generalization but personal experience. And forget about myself, he's on a crusade against Fedora/RHEL for whatever reasons he has. Just try the following: echo "Dear Jeff, for Fedora and RHEL we'd like to be able to switch back to letters < digits, could you make that a compile time switch? Thanks, Dominik" | mail jbj And turn off your spam filter that may be filtering on vulgar idioms. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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