On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:58:22 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No confusion here either - as rawhide packages are never mistaken for > > erratum packages. > > really? noone ever mistakes a package from rawhide as a consumable package? > really? no one ever does a random search for a package from an online > rpm warehouse and finds a package meant as a piece of rawhide and not > as a consumable update? > really? no one ever takes packages from the rawhide tree and mixes > them with updates and creates a homebrew repository that other users > will be using? > > i think you need to spend more time in general purpose community > forums and watch how often the less informed are confused about what > rawhide/development packages are meant for. Everyone in this > conversation is in the 1% tail of the distribution of clue in the > userbase. Arguing that you are not confused is sort of pointless. I > see people confused by what rawhide is, every single day. Ok the wording of my statement is wrong. (given any tool you'll find somenoe who'll use it incorrectly - and break it (or break something else) But unless you are saing: somehow the current non-gpg-signed packages are preventing such folks from doing the wrong things (listed above) - and 'gpg-singing' encourages them to do them - your text adds no substance to the discussion. Satish