ATrpms-issue (was: nvidia and xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL)

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Craig White wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 23:29 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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 ;)
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>>Kind Regards,
>>Kristian Poul Herkild
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>sir - I don't know you but this is 'American colloquialism' - pure BS
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>I quote your original post...'he doesn't really care about the mess,
>he's  unnecessarily creating for the rest of us.'
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>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.'
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>You apparently don't see the absurdity of your statements that I see.
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>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.
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>Craig
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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 ;)

Kind Regards,
Kristian Poul Herkild