That post was FUD. I _do_ know RPM. He seems to assume that just cause
someone disagrees with him they don't know what they are talking about.
He's the one that needs to stop spreading fud.
On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, zentara wrote:
> Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> >
> > I forwarded this message to a friend of mine who's really big on RPMs to
> > see what his comments would be. He asked me to forward his response to
> > the list, so I am. Note that I didn't write it :) He isn't on the list,
> > so if you're going to flame/respond to him, cc him.
> >
>
> This isn't a flame of you Jeremy, I just want to
> say something before I shut up about it :-)
>
> As your friend claims, I'm probably being "lame" for not wanting to
> learn
> how to use rpms to it's fullest potential. You're right.
> You spent a lot of time learning it, so I shouldn't
> bad mouth them, I should happily adopt the system.
> Anyways, most of the
> Redhat rpm's won't work on Suse, even after Suse moves to glibc.
> So most of us will probably be using redhat source rpm's anyhow,
> which is about the same as a tarball download. So I'm
> not being "forced" into anything.
>
> I guess time will tell. How long do you think it will
> be before warnings are issued about some rpm that contains
> a trojan? Maybe never,...maybe it's already happening.
> Maybe I shouldn't talk about it.
> You don't know, do ya.
>
> P.S. You can tell, I'm the kind of person who keeps
> a lock on my floppy drive. :-)
>
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