Breaking deps deliberately
Jussi Lehtola
jussi.lehtola at iki.fi
Wed May 13 14:29:44 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:22 -0400, Seth Vidal wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> >
> > Sounds like a sensible guideline?
> >
> >> and I think we need to ask if your provenpackager status should be
> >> re-evaluated.
> >
> > For what? Breaking a non-existant guideline in order to help people
> > who kept asking me for Fedora 10 support for libguestfs? Maybe we
> > should 'discipline' people for breaking other unwritten rules too,
> > such as adding packages to Fedora when sitting in bed or not correctly
> > dressed.
Funny, I could have sworn I've seen a mention somewhere that Fedora
packages cannot have Requires: on packages not available in Fedora (e.g.
3rd party repos), but I can't seem to find it now.
> I think it is implicit within the definition of 'provenpackager' that you
> understand the basic rules of how the system works.
+1
> You couldn't be a 'provenphysicist' for example without understanding the
> laws of thermodynamics.
+1 from a professional physicist
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