Tom Lane wrote: >> simple answer... they don't. > > Aye. I've seen plenty of irreproducible failures reported by Gentoo > users. I don't mind working on a flaky database ... or compiler ... > or operating system ... but please not all at once. Hehe. Those hardcore Gentooists frequently push their CFLAGS to far and trigger obscure GCC bugs or break assumptions in complex applications. I'd say their hated (or laughable) bug reports make a good service to all us because they help shaking latent bugs in mainstream distributions too. Actually, I've been in similar situations with Fedora (and before that with RedHat) because I've always had the bad habit of playing too much with betas just for the sake of seeing what's coming up. For some time, I even used to run CVS KDE on CVS Xorg built with a CVS GCC on a reiser4 partition with a git kernel. I were very surprised the days I could still open a Konqueror window ;-) When things go wrong with a distro such as Fedora, you can always use the B-plan of removing your local installations and get back to work, so it's nothing to be scared about. Only, very time consuming as a hobby. -- // Bernardo Innocenti - Develer S.r.l., R&D dept. \X/ http://www.develer.com/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
