Fedora - time to blink
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Sat Nov 26 22:52:52 UTC 2011
On 11/26/2011 05:31 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 11/27/2011 03:50 AM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>> Try this instead:
>>
>> rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/growisofs
>> dvd+rw-tools-7.1-5.fc14.x86_64
>>
>> (this is on F15 - for some reason I have never understoon - some
>> packages dont get rebuilt and/or repackages ... )
>
> Simple: Packages don't rebuilt unless there is a necessity to do so
>
> Rahul
Ok - simple, well fine, but beyond the obvious "duh" here, define
necessity please? (Rhetorical)
How do you (or maintainers) know with certainty that there isn't a
header file dependence, or a compiler change that would lead to a faster
(or a bug for that matter).
Is that a necessity if someone has verified working functionality of
an older binary - no probably not - (tho I have no idea if such testing
occurs) but it will lead to bugs being found sooner and any benefits
from compiler improvements etc being taken advantage of. And frankly,
its a bad operational decision to defer full builds.
Further - it just plain 'looks' better for f15 packages to be called f15.
Necessity? Probably not - is it a good idea to wait until a problem
occurs as the decision to rebuild - also probably not.
One man's simple is another man's food for thought.
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