On 8/19/05, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc.w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have been reading up on fedoraforums and I found some interesting > links to articles. > > http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=article-rpm I think perhaps that author needs to get acquinted with the kinds of problems debian users had with upgrades to the newest "stable" release of debain which came out recently and then write a more balanced article based on reality. For reference: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00006.html There is no silver bullet when it comes to cross-distro incompatibility either. Thanks to the popularity of Ubuntu.. you are going to see more 'incompatible' deb packages as ubuntu diverges away from debian stable. There will be situations where some packages will be debian specific some will be ubuntu specific simply because of the timescales associated with each projects development and the changes they need to incorporate to meet their guiding priorities. The debian ecosystem of distributions is not immune to the problem of incompatible divergence. As for gentoo.. well once you attempt to compile X or openoffice on middle of the road hardware.. you'll quickly see how much coffee you'll end up drinking if you attempt to install and maintain gentoo on a number of machines. Its cute..but it doesn't scale very well. If everyone rolled their own binaries and drank coffee waiting for the results.. we'd quickly run out of coffee. And I NEED my coffee for more important endeavors. In fact I need my coffee so much, that I plan to hunt down and exterminate gentoo users who are wasting such a valuable resource, squandering it while they replicate compiles of upgrades across systems. -jef"its very easy to promise a smooth upgrade...its much harder to state a modest truth. Unfortunately a lot a people seem to value an overreaching promise over honesty nowadays"spaleta -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
