On Monday, 28 February 2005, at 13:09:11 (+0100), Toralf Lund wrote: > Then how on Earth do you put everything right, if for some reason > someone has chosen the wrong versioning scheme for earlier releases? By doing it right, forcing people to manually upgrade whilst directing their anger and frustration at the idiot who caused the problem to begin with. > I think perhaps you missed my point. Should you really do that to > someone who used a ridiculous version number, but then saw the error > of their ways? If they released a package with a version number like that, yes. It's called "Natural Selection." Perhaps you're familiar with it.... :-) Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash." -- Jerry Seinfeld _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
