Speakup Modified Fedora 4 Will Be Delayed

[Dawes, Stephen]

Yes you have answered that portion of the question, but you refuse to answer the question about where in the rpm naming convention does it tell me where the level of patching is indicated. You have said that the kernel is a 2.6.11 kernel that has a number of patches that makes it appear to be a 2.6.12 kernel. So do you or don't you know where it tells this information in the rpm naming convention and where exactly it is located in the kernel-2.6.11-1.136_FC4.i686.rpm name.

There is an old cliché that goes something like, "if it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Well, as I said a long while back, if it looks like kernel-2.6.12, and it acts like kernel 2.6.12, then don't call it something that it isn't as fedora has done.

Janina, I have noticed something about the way in which you answer questions over the years. That is that you don't answer the entire question, but that you only answer the portion of the question that you feel like. This approach only provides partial information, and often is not what the requestor is looking for. You wrote that you maintain the fedora speakup modified howto, and for the work you do on this document it is good. However, your howto is only an installation document, and when people want to go beyond the information provided you start to get defensive and call their quest for information things like idle speculation. Janina, what is idle information is partial answers like the ones that you are in the habit of providing to peoples questions. 


Steve Dawes
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