[packagers] becoming a packager

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> J Robinson wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Nov 22, 2007 1:22 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com 
>> <mailto:dag at wieers.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, J Robinson wrote:
>>
>>      > Yup, rebuilding mediawiki.src.rpm with epel5 enabled succeeded 
>> -- it
>>      > installed ocaml from the epel5 repo in order to build mediawiki.
>>
>>     ocaml is in RPMforge, if you start building packages against EPEL 
>> (which
>>     is by design incompatible with other 3rd party efforts) they are not
>>     guaranteed to work with RPMforge.
> 
> Dag, stop the FUD please, it's not becoming.  The incompatibility can at 
> least currently be described as a 2-way street (and that's being 
> generous, but hey, since I'm biased, I'll leave it at that).

Sorry, wrong attribution.  Still, whoever spreads such nonsense just 
needs to stop, seriously.  If you want things better, please *do* 
something other than simply complain.

-- Rex