On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 09:51 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Oh - and remember, the goal of the critpath process is to ensure we > > don't send out updates that break people's systems. It worked fine in > > this case: no glibc update which breaks systems was approved. All the > > ones which caused major runtime breakage got rejected. The only breakage > > in one which was approved was to do with compiling things - which, sure, > > is a pain in the ass, but it's not the kind of problem critpath was > > introduced to deal with in the first place. > > That's splitting hairs; you're assuming that no Fedora users use their > system to compile things. No, I'm not. Being unable to compile things is an inconvenience that's easily remedied by five minutes looking at a mailing list. Being unable to boot to a working desktop is a massive stinking problem. They're both problems, sure. But one is a much bigger problem than the other. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
