Actaully I am rather getting use to the way things are now. It is really handy to have over 50 basic packages not upgradable without manual intervention. And not being able to fiqure out what is going on because of lousy spec files and other such lousy practices by the package maintainers. The endless need to get in and dirty and remove packages manually because urpmi can't or won't upgrade packages (nor should it under these circumstances) is actually becoming a major part of my day. Posting a list of such packages to this mailing list (as I and others have done) does not seem to help either.
Yes I am whining. But yes the above is also very true. Am I entitled to be whining ? Perhaps not. At this point I really don't care. Really. SIgh Bob Finch On Monday 11 August 2003 07:20 am, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > Ainsi parlait Abel Cheung : > > On 2003-08-11(Mon) 13:17:21 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote: > > > > Fair enough but this is very dangerous! Think about dropping security > > > > patches because they don't apply properly :( > > > > > > Well, i had no means to know it was a security patch, and i spend too > > > much time just clearing the spec to really care. > > > > Checking patches is a basic responsibility of package maintainers :-( > > Keeping spec clean to help other people understand it also.
