ATrpms-issue (was: nvidia and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL)
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jan 5 16:12:29 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:11 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 23:29 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Well, I'm not afraid of using the axe whenever it is justified and it
> >>is. Read earlier posts from me, and you'll see that my statements are
> >>100% correct. Or do some googling. None of the issues I'm raising are
> >>new - the same goes for Axel's (hey, I got it right this time :P )
> >>response. These issues are quite old and still unsolved. Therefore my
> >>reaction.
> >>
> >>And don't be mislead by my - sometimes - harsh style of writing. I only
> >>do that when it is justified, and doesn't meen that Axel is my enemy or
> >>anything like that. It's just that his dependecy-policy pisses me off ;)
> >>
> >>Kind Regards,
> >>Kristian Poul Herkild
> >>
> >>
> >----
> >sir - I don't know you but this is 'American colloquialism' - pure BS
> >
> >I quote your original post...'he doesn't really care about the mess,
> >he's unnecessarily creating for the rest of us.'
> >
> >Now - you're 'not afraid of using the axe whenever it is justified' but
> >earlier today, he doesn't care about the mess he's unnecessarily
> >creating.'
> >
> >You apparently don't see the absurdity of your statements that I see.
> >
> >What I see is that Axel spends a lot of his own resources for the
> >benefit of a lot of people and I can appreciate that someone runs into a
> >problem with files used from his repository. I remember this occurring
> >with many other repositories too. Your accusation of him not caring goes
> >against all evidence to the contrary.
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >
> >
> Well, I'm danish and english isn't my native language, so your first
> line is a bit unclear to me.
> However it is clear that you consider my post as pure B(ull)S(hit). That
> is a perfectly valid opinion to have - no matter how silly it is, since
> you haven't done any research whatsoever.
> You haven't read earlier posts from me (maybe you don't have them? In
> which case you cannot read them, of course) - you haven't done any
> google'ing.
> I found a post describing exactly what I'm describing (and with
> documentation) and it took less than five seconds of google'ing. And it
> was a post I haven't seen before.
> And Axel's reply to that post was:
> 1) There is no such problem (sic!)
> 2) If proven otherwise, I will not fix it.
> 3) I don't have valid reasons to not fix it.
>
> Turns out the problem was proved to exist and Axel right out said it
> wouldn't be fixed. And true to his word, it hasn't been fixed even
> though it's 11 months ago now. So my actions are perfectly justified.
>
> Do some google'ing on "dependencies atrpms" or "remove atrpms" or
> "problems atrpms" and so on. You'll see that Axel knows about it, and
> knows how to solve it - even solving downloadbandwidth issue for users
> with modem - and you'll see that he just doesn't want to fix it. Rather
> he'll keep up using his microsoftish approach.
>
> And last but not least. I don't have problems with other repositories -
> just ATrpms, which is why I'm removing them manually, while saving
> documentation on the troubles with his packages.
>
> As long as Axel refuses to fix these easily fixed issues, I'll smite him
> with my axe ;)
----
and you spend all this time trashing his reputation online but not a
second entering a bugzilla as he specifically asked you to do.
shame on you
Craig
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