José Matos (jamatos@xxxxxxxx) said: > On Monday 28 May 2007 05:41:04 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > So, my reading of this is 'larger phys/chem institutions are > > crazy and don't understand sane systems management'. Am I reading > > this wrong? > > Don't downplay their efforts, most of their problems run for months and they > are very carefull about the results, after all is their reputation that is at > stake. :-) Yes, but... describing a situation where results are run on whatever machine of whatever OS, with whatever random libs happen to be in /usr/local? Doesnt sound like an environment that intends to be replicable, or easily managed. What happens when a disk goes out? Or someone replaces one of those libraries? Bill -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging