The future of Linux - architecture and package inter-dependencies

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 15:22 +0100, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> > but, but, than you have pay money, and we just switched to Linux
> > because everything is gratis ;-)
> 
> I switched to Linux because of the freedom it gives to me, not only
> because it is gratis. You can also have a "gratis" version of any
> pirated software.


sigh... so this goes waaay off to an irrelevant tangent. My point was
that having a bug isn't a valid reason to upgrade to a major new version
(and all the dependency hell that that generates). The more right
solution is to fix the bug if it's important enough.