On 03/12/2010 06:52 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> If you don't even agree with a basic principle that breaking ABI should be >> avoided in updates, we don't really have much left to discuss. >> > I don't see this as being a "basic principle" at all. For an enterprise > distro like RHEL or CentOS, sure. But not for something like Fedora. What > counts is that all software in Fedora depending on the library gets rebuilt > and pushed at the same time. (That's what grouped updates are for.) We do > not support third-party software. > I disagree. Imagining that we are living in a island where no software exists outside the repository is just delusional and the assumption that everyone has the bandwidth to deal with all that churn is wrong as well. I should make people sit in a dial-up connection and have them update software now and then to bring them back to the ground.
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