FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

[Richard Kelsch]

I mentioned them more than once, and even one of them in detail.  If 
you're going to flame, be accurate.

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 03:04, Richard Kelsch wrote:
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>>An OS with an open-source community can not be tied down at the whim
>>of a group of bearded men with a clean coding fetish.  It runs totally
>>counter to the idea of software from the community. 
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>Since you haven't, in all your ranting, mentioned a single specific
>bug that we might hope could be fixed and certainly not fixed by
>waiting, what is your suggestion to make things better here?  Fedora
>doesn't control the C language or gcc versions.  If those move in a way
>that breaks old stuff - or refuses to build old already-broken stuff,
>what do you expect a distribution on a fast release schedule to do?
>If you are going to criticize, be constructive.
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