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Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 3, 2008 10:57 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Losses at Mandriva by dgm
Parent article: Losses at Mandriva

Because this is all interlinked stuff and killing one badly-behaved module will have cascading side-effects that will kill many other modules.

Packagers *hate* acting as developers. They just can not afford to wait for each individual developer to acknowledge his latest stupid change just made a quarter of the distro un-deployable.

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Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 3, 2008 14:19 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]

Do you think that it's a great idea to keep distributing the software made by people that is unable to acknowledge when something stupid has been done?

Wouldn't it be better to be more selective? Please packagers, think of yourselves.

Losses at Mandriva

Posted Dec 3, 2008 14:26 UTC (Wed) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]

I think you do nott realise there are almost no projects that do not goof sometimes and such a decision would only produce a nice embedded kernel-only distribution.