Religous wars

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Fri Sep 3 22:17:32 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 14:45, Stephen J Smoogen wrote:
> Dax Kelson wrote:
> >>xorg-x11-6.7.99.2-2
> >>-------------------
> >>* Thu Aug 12 2004 Mike A. Harris <mharris at redhat.com> 6.7.99.2-2
> >>
> >>- Added code to the rpm pre script to munge the config file to change the
> >>  "keyboard" driver to "kbd" driver on upgrades, as XOrg no longer supports
> >>  the old "keyboard" driver.
> >>- Use perl -p -i -e in pre rpm script for all config file munging instead of
> >>  grep and temporary files.
> > 
> > 
> > Did the policy on no perl in RPM pre/post install scripts change?
> > 
> > There have been many bugzilla bugs filed and fixed over the years
> > removing perl from rpm scripts.
> > 
> 
> Wow. I havent seen a good religous war in some time. Will be burning 
> Larry Wall or Guido today? Its getting cold out soon so how about 
> burning them both and the rest of the heretics who do not use awk.
> 
> [Sorry.. just had a long 'discussion' on how Debian was the one true OS 
> and RH/Fedora/Gentoo heretics were the cause of all problems on the 
> earth.. I didnt figure I would see one here too.]

Nah.

This is not a religious thing. And my post wasn't meant as a troll.

Read all the justification posts about lean installs without perl, etc.

Dax





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