Proposed F19 Feature: systemd features

"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" johannbg at gmail.com
Sat Feb 2 07:06:12 UTC 2013


On 02/02/2013 07:03 AM, David Tardon wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 02:08:00AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> When I meet a maintainer in the project that stated to me "I have to
>> talk to my manager first" before upgrading his "component" that
>> rings alarm bells to me, That gives me the feel that they are
>> maintaining their components as a part of their job not because they
>> want to scratch an itch and want to!
> There is a third reason for maintaining a component: it is a dependency
> for another component the packager maintains. This is applicable for
> _all_ packagers, be they from Red Hat or the community. You either
> conveniently omitted this reason to make an argument or never thought of
> it, in which case I respectfully ask you to butt out of this thread
> because you do not know what you are talking about.

Oh in my case it was an "primary" component no dependency that Red Hat 
maintainer could not update until he got approval but for the sake of 
your argument and concision let's lower my IQ to an rock ( which I do 
believe is 20 ) and say I dont have freaking flying idea what I'm 
talking about.

JBG


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