ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Andrew Robinson]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:47:28 +0100
>> "M. Fioretti" <mfioretti at mclink.it> wrote:
>>
>>> which fundamental defects, sorry?
>>
>> Well, whatever undocumented crap it does that allows both i386 and
>> x86_64 rpms to install "the same" files (which are in fact obviously
>> different) is clearly a wart about the size of the titanic.
> 
> 
> No, that's a feature and it lets you run packages that haven't been 
> rebuilt for x86_64 and need 32 bit libraries (what, you have a single 
> source for software?).
> 
> The bug is that it won't easily let you build multiple versions of the 
> same package for testing, etc. and keep them all installed - except for 
> the kernels where somebody noticed the problem and made it special case.
> 

My experience is that I perform an install and then perform an upgrade. 
The upgrade fails because of the above mentioned conflicts between x86 
and x86_64 versions of the same packages. Whether you want to call that 
a bug or a feature, its a bad user experience.

Andrew Robinson