On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:28:58 -0500 Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 13:17 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > > > If the issue was only 'newer is better' then rpm can easily get > > around it. Hell, so can yum, now. > > But koji, createrepo and such can't, right? createrepo is version agnostic. It cares not at all. koji can build whatever, too.. I'm not sure how those are related here. > True, but the biggest problems are things like new versions of colord > that trip up a selinux-policy denial which then in turn cause > gnome-settings-daemon to crash which in turn gives you a failure at > GDM. > > None of that involves user data. gdm does change your user settings when you login, though. For desktop environment selection (or at least it used to) > > > So - I don't see how adding another layer is really a problem - > > since the 'infinite versions in every direction' won't help our > > users losing their configs or worse their data. > > > > am I missing something here? > > Yes - that we don't need to solve the user data problem for all > software immediately to support rolling back a Mesa upgrade. I'm not sure how much software you're actually talking about here that doesn't end up touching the user somewhere. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
