Re: yum and its stupid config files

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From: jrodman
Subject: Re: yum and its stupid config files
Date: 23:30 on 07 Nov 2006
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:29:39PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great jrodman@xxxx.xxxxxxxxxx.xxx once stated:
> > 
> > I'm _hoping_ this one is really not a software error, there are some
> > basic pieces of functionality I expect software to usually get
> > right, like transmitting data without modification.
> 
> From statements like this, I suspect you've never encountered data
> mangled durring transmission (hey!  Where did that greater than sign
> come from? [1]).

By usually, I meant that programs which are _trying_ to pass things
along unmodified usually succeed.  There's only so many ways to get
fread and fwrite wrong.

I'm well aware that programs often don't try.

-josh
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