Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 15, 2008 15:10 UTC (Fri) by daniels (subscriber, #16193)
In reply to: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Sigh.

Yes, I know that.  I've seen (particularly within X.Org) that Fedora is a fantastic free
software citzen, and its upstream work has been nothing short of amazing.  I also admire and
respect the dedication to software freedom and improving the entire free software ecosystem
that no-one else embodies.  (Honestly, I'd be using it if it actually, y'know, worked.  But
that's another matter.)

It was rhetoric to make a point: just because Fedora have not adopted dpkg as their base
packaging format (not just provided dpkg), does not mean that they're not interested in
cross-distribution collaboration.  Of course, it would be nice if RPM simply ceased to exist,
but that's not going to happen, and that wasn't my point.

My point was that just because you hold back for whatever reason on doing one thing which
would increase cross-distribution collaboration, that you're not completely against
cross-distribution collaboration.  Hopefully that's a reasonable enough statement that
everyone agrees.

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Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 16, 2008 4:48 UTC (Sat) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (4 responses)


I don't see what your beef with RPM is. 

In a similar way, if someone makes a opinion, there is no need to paint a broad brush just
because the person also happens to be a Fedora contributor. Again, you need to differentiate
between opinions representative of a project and personal ones.

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 17, 2008 0:29 UTC (Sun) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (3 responses)

He has identified a pattern.  He has requested that the pattern stop.  

This is not an overbroad brush.

It might be wrong, but it is not on its face an overreach.

If you want to see why there are differences of opinion on the virtues of dpkg and RPM you can
just do some simple web searches.  There have been endless threads on the topic.  I don't find
the discussion personally interesting but there are definitely technical differences that
matter in some cases.

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 17, 2008 16:38 UTC (Sun) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (2 responses)

You need citations in order to demonstrate a pattern. I don't see that happening here. I don't
see why someone trying to demonstrate that there is unwanted hostility would want to destroy
his own argument by wanting RPM to completely ceast to exist either. Sure, there are
differences and in some cases there are advantages to each of the solutions too. Remember,
Intel switching from Ubuntu to Fedora claiming RPM to be a reason?

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 17, 2008 16:59 UTC (Sun) by daniels (subscriber, #16193) [Link] (1 responses)

You continue to miss the point by such an astounding margin that I think it's better if we
walk away and just forget this ever happened.

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 18, 2008 13:17 UTC (Mon) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

If you don't have a point worth understanding, feel free to walk away. I thought you had one
while engaging in this conversation. Good luck.

Udev rules and the management of the plumbing layer

Posted Aug 17, 2008 12:36 UTC (Sun) by rwmj (guest, #5474) [Link]

Having personally built many many .debs & .rpms over the years, I can tell you that RPM is a lot easier to use and considerably more sane.

Yum, on the other hand, sucks donkey balls compared to apt, although it has been getting better recently ...

Rich.