On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:58:22 -0600 (CST), Satish Balay balay@fastmail.fm wrote:
No confusion here either - as rawhide packages are never mistaken for erratum packages.
really? noone ever mistakes a package from rawhide as a consumable package? really? no one ever does a random search for a package from an online rpm warehouse and finds a package meant as a piece of rawhide and not as a consumable update? really? no one ever takes packages from the rawhide tree and mixes them with updates and creates a homebrew repository that other users will be using?
i think you need to spend more time in general purpose community forums and watch how often the less informed are confused about what rawhide/development packages are meant for. Everyone in this conversation is in the 1% tail of the distribution of clue in the userbase. Arguing that you are not confused is sort of pointless. I see people confused by what rawhide is, every single day.
Ok the wording of my statement is wrong. (given any tool you'll find somenoe who'll use it incorrectly - and break it (or break something else)
But unless you are saing: somehow the current non-gpg-signed packages are preventing such folks from doing the wrong things (listed above) - and 'gpg-singing' encourages them to do them - your text adds no substance to the discussion.
Satish