On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 14:45 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Feedback from the consumer end of the producer-consumer link :-) > > > > The motivation is fine and well, it didn't quite work out, we call > > this a "bug". > > > > The only real mistake was trying to slipstream it in without > > notification or warning. devs all agree we should never do this, but > > it is so ... tempting. > > > > I've made the same mistake myself many many times, and each time it > > came back and bit me hard :-) > > > > > > > > What I like is the speed it got corrected. People that don't sync often > most likely didn't even know it ever changed. > ...
I got bit, on a 6 monthly major update across multiple systems - what were the odds of that happening? Despite that, its small potatoes in the scheme of updating perl/python and other major packages ... BillK
