Here's a fun Fedora Core RPM dependency problem that I just fixed.(Since I've jumped on Ubuntu for similar things, I feel that equaltime is only fair.)

I have been trying to install Wine on my Fedora Core 5 machine fora while, without success. The visible manifestation of the problemwas that ' yum install wine ' would download everything and thenbomb out during the install complaining about two things:

• 'package sane-backends-1.0.18-2.

Recently there has been a small contremps over how well (or not) IDEs can support refactoring for dynamiclanguages. To stereotype and condense, on one side are Java peoplewho feel that without the guarantees provided by static typing, manysorts of automated refactorings are impossible to do reliably and soworthless; on the other side are Tim Bray and dynamic language people,who feel that various things can get them close enough, and besidesthere are a laundry list of situations where static languages don'thave reliable refactorings either

In the context of SPF and its need for SRS instead of simplemail forwarding, a local sysadmin recently asked on our sysadmin mailinglist:

What is bad about remailing?

Fundamentally we're being asked to do extra work that benefits otherpeople, people who've chosen to break their own mailers for no actualbenefit. This is backwards, and in my opinion accommodating such peopleonly encourages the next lot to demand that everyone else clean up theirmesses.

Apart from that:

• remailing requires additional software and configuration,