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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Subject: Re: futex hang with rpm in 2.6.17.1-2174_FC5
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:02:50 +0100
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On Saturday 21 October 2006 20:08, Ben Greear wrote:
> >  > or shouldn't rpm notice the previous process is dead and
> >  > clean it up itself?
> >  
> > Sounds sensible to me and you, but in the past sensible ideas and
> > rpm maintainers haven't gone hand in hand.
> >   
> Ahhh :)

Well said. rpm's source tarball size doubles with each release
and it contains such unexpected things as ELF manipulation
library. I have no idea what business rpm can possibly have with
parsing ELF headers.
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vda
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