On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If there is one thing I have learned in 20 years of dealing with
> RPMS... DON'T PLAY AROUND WITH EPOCH. It is a hack which should only
> be used as a last resort and a lot of tools are built around that
> assumption.. even if they don't know it. Every time we have done
> things with Epoch we have regretted it because of this.
>
> At a certain point, if you want/need to do these things, it is better
> to burn it from the ground and come up with a new packaging system
> (and relearn all the second system problems involved with that).

Agreed. Re-inventing working structures to support a new mental model
often ignores all the hard-won lessons of the old model.
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