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Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 21, 2007 16:41 UTC (Wed) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by markc
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

While I think debs are better too, I don't think the kind of reliability you're comparing here is really deb's prowess really. It's more a matter of lots of slogging through hammering out solid policy and enforcing it.

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Posted Feb 21, 2007 19:02 UTC (Wed) by malex (subscriber, #15692) [Link]

You got it nailed. Compare the debian-mentors mailing list's tradition of
taking apart every presented package to the uncharted eons of badly made
rpms and it becomes clear that quality control is what makes Debian
upgrades so painless.

Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 9:31 UTC (Thu) by gilboa (guest, #23856) [Link]

A. Official Fedora repositories (Core, Updates, Extras) share the same mentor's like program. (AKA: Package review and sponsor process).
B. Once you go 3rd party (unofficial repos), it's your own ass to fry. (BTW, last time I tried to install freenx on my Etch system [from a 3'rd party repo] I almost ended up with a dead Debian system - Somehow you don't see me blaming deb for my own mistakes.)

- Gilboa