yum question, reverting to old packages.

Richard Hally rhally at mindspring.com
Sat Sep 2 22:39:40 UTC 2006


Rahul wrote:
> Richard Hally wrote:
>> Rahul wrote:
>>> Richard Hally wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excellent! RPM considered harmful. Of course our "helper" apps are 
>>>> not helpful when you need help the most. </sarcasm>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Being sarcastic is very unhelpful and wont motivate anyone to help 
>>> you. Kindly avoid that. 
>> Who died and made you 'list mom'? 
> 
> Self elected mostly.
So we can ignore you when we choose to do so. thanks.

> 
> Sarcasm is a valid rhetorical device.
>> Please take care when you criticize other people's style. You're not 
>> perfect by any stretch of the imagination. (and neither an I).
>>
> 
> It would be nice to avoid sarcasm if you want to developers to take your 
> suggestions seriously.
> 
So you speak for all developers? I didn't realize you were one. What is 
your day job? PHB-candidate?
> 
>>>
>>> Well yeah. 
>> Sarcasm perceived.
> 
> You seem to have misunderstood. I accepted what you said.
> 
> 
>>
>> It would be nice to have RPM rollbacks used more reliably but
>>> thats different from Yum's ability to do RPM downgrades. If RPM can 
>>> get the ability to do downgrades reliably yum can also support it.
>>>
>>> Rahul
>>>
>> Let's see if we can get RPM rollbacks and downgrades working and out 
>> of the "nice to have" category.
>>
> 
> Sure. Patches accepted.
There you go again - speaking for developers.

Have a nice day,
Richard





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