my packaging tool is better than your packaging tool

I have a longer rant on this subject elsewhere, incomplete, but here is a brief, concise note that may be of use in the interim:

if you tell RPM to install software, and you tell it to disregard any potential dependency problems or file-overwrite problems, and your system then breaks, RPM is not at fault. Furthermore, using this as "evidence" that RPM is broken, or less functional than $your_favourite_packaging_tool, will cause me to insert my boot into your anatomy at any convieniently obvious point and root around for a bit until you reconsider your opinion.

In summary, don't be an idiot.

your monday whine

My latest DVDRentals (sorry, ScreenClick.com) offering arrived today. It's cracked. Unwatchably so. That makes for three of the last seven discs unwatchable, which means this past month I payed €20 for four discs. Which in turn means it'd have been cheaper to walk to the rental store in Dalkey and rent the damn things, even if I would have had to badger the listless youth behind the counter into searching for my choice of movies. I am charitably assuming that ScreenClick do at least a cursory visual inspection of discs before sending them out, and that this damage is being done by the Post Office as they force the envelope through my letterbox. An Post, of course, would deny this and further state that hey, if it's valuable, insure it before you post it or something. Whoops, dropped your priceless china, hope it's well packed.

reflection

How the hell did this journal turn into Things That Make Waider Ranty, anyway?