On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:55 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:32:12 -0800, Adam wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 18:03 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > > > > ...or what weird third-party package may be preventing libmudflap-devel > > > > from getting updated... > > > > > > Conspiracy theories are not helpful. There have been similarily "weird" > > > packages in the Fedora package collection before, too. > > > > um. It's hardly a conspiracy theory, it's a common cause of this kind of > > problem. > > "Common"? Where do those packages come from? I think your point of view is > biased and inappropriate. Over the past months, dependency issues caused > by third party packages have not been anything like a hot or regular > topic. Much more common have been duplicates, interrupted transactions, > upgrade path issues, multi-arch install/repo configuration bugs, and > real packaging mistakes in the Fedora package collection. > > > I did consider mentioning that it can happen with repository > > packages too, but didn't bother for brevity. > > So, you are interested in theories instead of this actual issue? More > interesting is to find out what has happened in the scenario Robert has > pointed out. He's been a long-time subscriber and Fedora user. Actual > trouble-shooting would be more interesting than bashing third parties who > are irrelevant unless you can show that they are the culprit. Or are you > aware of third-party GCC packages for F-12 that cause such a problem? I'm sorry, what? Did you wake up on the cranky side of the bed today? All I did was mention another possible cause of the problem and suddenly you're going off on page-long rants about how I'm biased and spouting conspiracy theories? Did I turn two pages at once and miss a big important plot section somewhere around here? *confused* -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
