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From: Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	kaos@ocs.com.au, Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Modules in 2.5.47-bk...
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:45:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bs4si29f.fsf@vador.mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021114042738.2091E2C080@lists.samba.org> (Rusty Russell's message of "Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:22:10 +1100")

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:

> > The backward compat thing is really a hack, and not system
> > software done right :( modutils should not need to rename all its
> > binaries *.old -- and have that be the default that users see when
> > installing the rpm.  No company worth its shareholders would
> > release a package full of "*.old" binaries.  Come on...
> 
> OK, would calling it "*-2.4" or something help?

most distros come with some alternative system (at lest, debian, mdk &
rh), so this problem can legally be left to vendors.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-14 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-13 18:36 Modules in 2.5.47-bk Petr Vandrovec
2002-11-13 21:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14  3:53   ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14  4:06     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14  5:22       ` Rusty Russell
2002-11-14 15:45         ` Thierry Vignaud [this message]
2002-11-16 13:50           ` Adrian Bunk
2002-11-16 21:08         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-14 10:50     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-11-14 17:53       ` Rusty Russell

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