some closure on the xorg updates issue

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 11 14:41:40 UTC 2006


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Max Spevack wrote:
>> 4) The number of Fedora users who, due to the hardware that they own, 
>> are forced to rely on proprietary video drivers is significant enough 
>> for us to be concerned about breaking their systems.
> Isn't this one of the beautiful things of RPM, which can have Conflicts 
> set so user's systems will not be broken be an automatic (unattended?), 
> or manual yum update? Do we not expect Fedora users to be savvy enough 
> to get the dependency error, Google around a bit, and yum --exclude=xorg 
> update?

Thats a very poor user experience.

Rahul




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list