A report from the RPM summit [LWN.net]

A report from the RPM summit

Posted Oct 9, 2009 0:50 UTC (Fri) by joey (subscriber, #328)
In reply to: A report from the RPM summit by nevyn
Parent article: A report from the RPM summit

So, because I

a) Wrote alien

b) To keep things straight while doing that, wrote down an overview of some of the places package formats are similar/different, in a tabular form that was prone to being misunderstood, 10 years ago.

... I'm a troll. I see.

> Indeed, everything is hard coded. Which works fine if you have an
> infinite resource of packagers, less so for a company that is paying
> people to package things.

If you think everything is hard coded, I will charitably assume that you last looked at how debian packages are built a decade+ ago, before there were things like debhelper.

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A report from the RPM summit

Posted Oct 9, 2009 15:35 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

... I'm a troll. I see.

No, you are just a new victim of a meta-troll , an old LWN fad...

A report from the RPM summit

Posted Oct 9, 2009 15:48 UTC (Fri) by nevyn (subscriber, #33129) [Link]

I don't believe I've replied to any of your comments.

In regards to my description of joey's comment ... sure, whatever. Next time there's an article on dpkg I'll respond implying that dpkg is just catching up to 15 year old rpm features, and dismiss everything else as pointless. Anyone who responds and doesn't agree with my tone will obviously be a "self righteous meta-troll".

Trolling?

Posted Oct 10, 2009 11:17 UTC (Sat) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

You get easily offended. I guess that what triggered your meta-trolling was the first sentence:

Just a quick look at their planned features compared to what's in dpkg already:

which I suppose may seem like derogatory or condescending if you have some sort of inferiority complex. You can also see it as "let's have a look at the planned features and see if they can usefully added to our package format". Probably there are some features in rpm that are not in dpkg, but that was not the subject of the message.

One of the requirements of trolling is to beg for attention, which was not the case here. The original message was also quite informative. Wait a minute, am I meta-feeding the meta-troll?