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[max]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>     
>>>    All this is now of no sense. I have booted F7 which is being
>>> updated as I type, and seems to have none of the Pulseaudio problems.
>>> I give up with F8 and think the repo's have a problem since I can find
>>> nothing on my F8. So rather than hit my head on a hard rock I come
>>> back to a version that just works.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Use some logical deduction and common sense.
>>
>> If the repos have a problem, and everyone uses the same repos, then
>> everyone would have the same problems.
>>
>> Since everyone doesn't have the problems the fault lies not with the
>> repos but elsewhere.
>>
>>
>>     
> Karl's troubleshooting software reminds me of the repair shops that
> repair electronics by replacing parts until it works again. They
> have no idea why the repair worked, or even if the part replaced was
> the cause of the problem, or a symptom of another problem. For
> example, if the final transistors are burned out on a transmitter,
> you replace the transistors. This fixes the immediate problem, but
> the problem will come back if the real problem is something like
> high SWR on the antenna connection, or an intermittent short in the
> co-ax cable.
>
> One big part of Karl's problem is that he installs files from
> non-RPM sources that overwrite installed files, and then updates
> overwrite these files. Then he blames the updates for breaking
> things. The kind of problem you would expect from someone that does
> not understand how a package manager works.
>
> Mikkel
He will be ok if he can get over the  " I might as well go back to 
Windows" attitude.

-Max