On Aug 20, 2015 9:04 AM, "Jonathan Wakely" <jwakely@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20/08/15 08:40 -0400, Eric Griffith wrote:
>>
>> I won't say its impossible but its -very- hard to remove the bad
>> connotations and bad history from a name without changing the name of the
>> thing itself. Someone just the other day on the Phoronix forums was saying
>> how they still don't trust RPMs because of RPM Hell all those years back.
>>
>> The problems may have been fixed but the name remained and therefore the
>> history remained.
>
>
> So are we going to rename RPM, or just accept that idiots will remain
> idiots whatever we do?
>
> If someone bases their technical decisions on an experience from a
> totally different era (and RPM Hell is ancient history in internet
> time) then they're just looking for an excuse to hold a grudge.
I didn't say they were right, I'm just pointing out that to an extent its human nature. If you have a bad experience that experience stays with you. Maybe you can get over it, maybe you can't. But a name does have history.
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