On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > Hmm, So when this was broken a lot of bugs were triggered? > > > > Sure seems like if a lot of bugs are being triggered then it is NOT a > > niche usecase. > > > > You can't have it both ways. > > Very few people do it. When they do, lots of things break. It's kind of > like trying to run Fedora under the NetBSD Linux emulation. Nobody does > it, but if they did they'd find that a surprising quantity of code > wouldn't work. you keep asserting this claim - and yet all the evidence in terms of concerned users comes to the contrary. Can you document or backup your assertion? > Every Fedora update requires significant retooling. The fact that these > bugs exist indicates that there would be advantages to not supporting > this, providing that in return we can satisfy all the existing user > requirements. "/usr is a separate partition" is *not* a meaningful user > requirement, any more than "Fedora release names must start with a > consonant". If we can provide better and more generalisable solutions > for their requirements then that's a win for everyone. Again - I'm going to ask you to stop making that assertion. You're stating it as an established fact when it is CLEARLY the point in contention. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
