On Wednesday, 05 May 2004, at 14:06:21 (-0700),
Steve Beattie wrote:
> What's unfortunate is that rpmbuild -bs and -bb exist, as this
> allows buggy srpms to be built and shipped that don't correspond to
> the binary rpms.
That's no more unfortunate than any of the other options ("--force
--nodeps", anyone?) that can be abused/misused and result in various
forms of catastrophe.
I'm a firm believer in Darwinism, and I have no problem whatsoever
supplying users with tools of sufficient power to demonstrate their
level of intelligence, regardless of how high or low it might be.
Michael
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