Re: Vi backspace key problem

[Dag Wieers <dag wieers com>]

On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Chester R. Hosey wrote:

> As I see it, RHEL offers three things over other distributions: RHN, a
> growing community of ISVs, and product support. It seems to me that
> anything that enhances any of those three value offerings would be a
> good thing for users and thus a good thing for Red Hat.

A good thing, or a liability ?

Implementing what you require can only be done by making assumptions, and 
the complexity of installations together with the fact that you really 
don't want to mess with production systems if you don't have to, means 
that you want exact science, not something based on assumptions.

Besides, when would you need this kind of functionality with RHEL ? Only 
when doing major upgrades (RHEL2 -> RHEL3 -> RHEL4) and the fact that 
RHEL3 will be supported for another 5 years means that you are not going 
to upgrade RHEL3 to RHEL4 in production if you don't have to.

Also, major upgrades are officially not supported, so actually RHEL 
customers never need this and the resources Red Hat has are better spend 
elsewhere, imho.

Kind regards,
--   dag wieers,  dag wieers com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]