On Aug 20, 2015 9:04 AM, "Jonathan Wakely" <jwak...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 20/08/15 08:40 -0400, Eric Griffith wrote: >> >> I won't say its impossible but its -very- hard to remove the bad >> connotations and bad history from a name without changing the name of the >> thing itself. Someone just the other day on the Phoronix forums was saying >> how they still don't trust RPMs because of RPM Hell all those years back. >> >> The problems may have been fixed but the name remained and therefore the >> history remained. > > > So are we going to rename RPM, or just accept that idiots will remain > idiots whatever we do? > > If someone bases their technical decisions on an experience from a > totally different era (and RPM Hell is ancient history in internet > time) then they're just looking for an excuse to hold a grudge.
I didn't say they were right, I'm just pointing out that to an extent its human nature. If you have a bad experience that experience stays with you. Maybe you can get over it, maybe you can't. But a name does have history.
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