M. Fioretti wrote:
Just saw this on LWN (haven't even finished reading it), sorry if it
has already been posted:
http://lwn.net/Articles/223038/
Marco
I read it, and most of the comments on it.
Mr. Raymond could have solved his problems by using a different package
manager (i.e., smart) and being pro-active about using it. The best
thing that extras ever did was to build its own version of smart.
As an example of being pro-active with smart (rather than merely
accepting whatever changes it recommends without further review): I've
known for weeks now that the priorities system seems to be broken /in
re/ libgcrypt, libtheora, and some jpackage libraries. For some reason,
smart wants to upgrade some packages from ATrpms, and downgrade some
other packages on jpackage, this although I already have versions
originally installed from core, released-updates, and extras. I don't
know what's going on (are these packages now gone from released-updates
or extras?), but until I do, I always unmark those changes before I
commit. Why couldn't Mr. Raymond do the same thing? What is he looking for?
And about those proprietary codecs: doesn't he realize that not all of
us want to build multimedia machines? Some of us want to build database
servers or Web servers, and you don't need proprietary /anything/ for
that sort of work!
Does anyone here think that any of Mr. Raymond's suggestions have any
merit? Or shall we write this off to sour grapes?
Temlakos
