Re: rawhide report: 20070120 changes

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On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:54 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2007 10:46, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > You're running rawhide on an internet facing system?
> >
> > Why is that unreasonable?  You want people to test stuff right...
> 
> Mostly because a lot of the packages in rawhide are untested, especially with 
> external facing scenarios in mind.  Rawhide can and will eat babies, 
> sometimes through flaws that appear upstream and aren't caught until somebody 
> packages it up and releases it to the wild.  Always use Rawhide with caution.  

Sure... but unless someone tests these baby eating packages against a
real life scenario, you're bound to find bugs _after_ release.  I've
seen that happen twice now in real products.

(ok, perhaps not this pam one, but still)

josh

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