On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 09:36, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le mardi 07 septembre 2004 à 09:09 -0400, seth vidal a écrit : > > > What multiple repos? Why do you suppose there have to be multiple repos > > > for this to happen? > > > > > > The latest problem of barfing due to obsolete packages happened recently > > > with xorg. > > > > The problem was with xorg in RAWHIDE. Not in a normal repository. If > > people want to run rawhide then they can figure out some subset of > > pkging problems that come up. > > You have most of the problems of Rawhide on standard RHAS/Fedora > systemes. It may be less frequent, but usually you don't have the leeway > to fix it you get with a Rawhide box (entreprise critical, etc etc) > > « It's in Rawhide, I can ignore it » has always been a poor excuse IMHO. I completely disagree. Rawhide frequently has unresolvable dependencies. It frequently has randomly introduced version updates that are rolled back in the next rawhide update. Those things, which catch something like 90% of the users, do not happen in stable releases. They do happen in broken repositories though. But I'm not sure that just continuing when a repository is broken is in anyone's best interest. -sv
