On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:30 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>
Policy is the rules under which people agree to work together. When you
have policies that you simply ignore then you end up with people pointing at
your ignoring of policy as a valid reason for you to ignore policy. That's
why I wrote the second stanze about changing policy. when you update the
policy to reflect the realities that you face, then you make the policies
better for everyone who is trying to make better packaging choices.
Right - we've had this discussion before.
Rules have power b/c we give them to them. They are not empowered on
their own.
That is a political-philosophy question :)
> With a package you have a lot more garbage to maintain - with
just
> adding the dep you can phase it out in an update and not have to add any
> obsoletes or conflicts garbage.
>
This argument could be used for every compat package in Fedora as well,
though. Why don't we ship the openssl compat package and the main openssl
packages from a single srpm?
B/c the openssl items are not on a horizon that is as a short as
6months.
This problem goes away when samba3x gets fixed.
-sv