On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If there is one thing I have learned in 20 years of dealing with > RPMS... DON'T PLAY AROUND WITH EPOCH. It is a hack which should only > be used as a last resort and a lot of tools are built around that > assumption.. even if they don't know it. Every time we have done > things with Epoch we have regretted it because of this. > > At a certain point, if you want/need to do these things, it is better > to burn it from the ground and come up with a new packaging system > (and relearn all the second system problems involved with that). Agreed. Re-inventing working structures to support a new mental model often ignores all the hard-won lessons of the old model. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
