On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:11 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > >On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 23:29 +0100, Kristian Poul Herkild 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. > >> > >>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 > >> > >> > >---- > >sir - I don't know you but this is 'American colloquialism' - pure BS > > > >I quote your original post...'he doesn't really care about the mess, > >he's unnecessarily creating for the rest of us.' > > > >Now - you're 'not afraid of using the axe whenever it is justified' but > >earlier today, he doesn't care about the mess he's unnecessarily > >creating.' > > > >You apparently don't see the absurdity of your statements that I see. > > > >What I see is that Axel spends a lot of his own resources for the > >benefit of a lot of people and I can appreciate that someone runs into a > >problem with files used from his repository. I remember this occurring > >with many other repositories too. Your accusation of him not caring goes > >against all evidence to the contrary. > > > >Craig > > > > > > > Well, I'm danish and english isn't my native language, so your first > line is a bit unclear to me. > However it is clear that you consider my post as pure B(ull)S(hit). That > is a perfectly valid opinion to have - no matter how silly it is, since > you haven't done any research whatsoever. > You haven't read earlier posts from me (maybe you don't have them? In > which case you cannot read them, of course) - you haven't done any > google'ing. > I found a post describing exactly what I'm describing (and with > documentation) and it took less than five seconds of google'ing. And it > was a post I haven't seen before. > And Axel's reply to that post was: > 1) There is no such problem (sic!) > 2) If proven otherwise, I will not fix it. > 3) I don't have valid reasons to not fix it. > > Turns out the problem was proved to exist and Axel right out said it > wouldn't be fixed. And true to his word, it hasn't been fixed even > though it's 11 months ago now. So my actions are perfectly justified. > > Do some google'ing on "dependencies atrpms" or "remove atrpms" or > "problems atrpms" and so on. You'll see that Axel knows about it, and > knows how to solve it - even solving downloadbandwidth issue for users > with modem - and you'll see that he just doesn't want to fix it. Rather > he'll keep up using his microsoftish approach. > > And last but not least. I don't have problems with other repositories - > just ATrpms, which is why I'm removing them manually, while saving > documentation on the troubles with his packages. > > As long as Axel refuses to fix these easily fixed issues, I'll smite him > with my axe ;) ---- and you spend all this time trashing his reputation online but not a second entering a bugzilla as he specifically asked you to do. shame on you Craig