Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules [LWN.net]

Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:19 UTC (Fri) by linuxrocks123 (guest, #34648)
In reply to: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules by dvandeun
Parent article: Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

I use Slackware -current as well, but you paint too rosy a picture. It is
a development branch, and things do break occasionally. It might actually
be okay to run as a server, because the core does stay pretty stable, but
GUI-centric things frequently break. For example, a few weeks ago,
ImageMagick broke completely. That is a critical program for me, and I
had to hunt down libraries that were removed by an X server upgrade to get
it working again.

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Fedora core 5 will (temporarily) break non-GPL modules

Posted Mar 17, 2006 11:42 UTC (Fri) by dvandeun (guest, #24273) [Link]

The point that I was trying to make was that *even* the development branch never breaks in a big way. But no conservative approach can avoid breaking things at all in a development branch, of course.