Re: Goodbye, Fedora

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:13:14PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >The proximate causes of this failure were (1) incompetent repository
> >maintenance, making any nontrivial upgrade certain to founder on a
> >failed dependency, and (2) the fact that rpm is not statically linked
> >-- so it's possible to inadvertently remove a shared library it
> >depends on and be unrecoverably screwed.  But the underlying problems
> >run much deeper.
> We only have your analysis of the problem. Not a description of the 
> actual problem. That would be more helpful. Perhaps a bug report.

Yes, excellent advice. Eric, here's a document which may help you get better
answers rather than the storm of flames:

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>.


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