Craig White wrote:
Well, I'm not afraid of using the axe whenever it is justified and it is. Read earlier posts from me, and you'll see that my statements are 100% correct. Or do some googling. None of the issues I'm raising are new - the same goes for Axel's (hey, I got it right this time :P ) response. These issues are quite old and still unsolved. Therefore my reaction.On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 19:25 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
Don't even think about using .at-packages. Alex Thimm likes to use this list to spread his packages - without ever fixing the many issues arrising from using them (those have been proved to exist by me and many others). It's better to do a search in google on the issue, and on NVidia-drivers basically "nvidia driver rpm fc3 -atrpms" (the latter being to remove all results in relation to ATrpms! - very important to remember).
You didn't have to remove mesa, I can recommend using SmartPM to solve most issues. Just don't use an ATrpms-package - they screw up your system, by adding fictious dependencies and conflicting with everything but other ATrpms-packages.
Why Alex Thimm has chosen a Microsoftish approach is unclear to me, but as can be seen from an answer to me from AT, he doesn't really care about the mess, he's unnecessarily creating for the rest of us.
(Now he's gonna get pissed, I guess :p )
---- I think that this was a cheap shot post all the way.
I have had nothing but success with Axel's repository and would wholeheartedly recommend using it with dag's and freshrpms.
You are wrong that the doesn't care - he has demonstrated time and time again that the cares.
Obviously, you have an axe to grind and have no hesitation to grind it.
I hate to have to see him defend himself against inflated attacks like this.
Craig
And don't be mislead by my - sometimes - harsh style of writing. I only do that when it is justified, and doesn't meen that Axel is my enemy or anything like that. It's just that his dependecy-policy pisses me off ;)
Kind Regards, Kristian Poul Herkild
