[packagers] Re: incompatible fftw-3-1.1 kde-redhat packaging

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Bent Terp wrote:

> On Monday 16 October 2006 11:47, Dag Wieers wrote:
> > And you know what, Fedora Extras
> > doesn't care about what already exists in other repositories. So from time
> > to time they break stuff that was already there. fftw is not the first one.
> 
> I know, Dag, I know. I've been hanging out here awhile.
> 
> > And we cannot provide forward compatibility with what's not there. So it
> > makes sense to do it the way most people did because that most likely what
> > others will do as well. In theory that is...
> 
> Yes Dag, you _do_ make loadsa sense. I never meant to imply anything else. I'm 
> sorry if I came across sounding that way. And I ain't never said that your 
> job was easy, merely that your work was competent!

Hey, I wasn't angry or mad :) Just giving some facts and giving the green 
light to make the change (and shaking my head at the same time).

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]