Has anybody upgraded eclipse?

[Ric Moore]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:33 -0700, John Wendel wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:39 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote:
> >> I've been itching to try the latest eclipse, 
> > <snippage>
> >> So there it is, the shiny yes/no prompt just sitting there like the
> >> history eraser button tempting me to answer yes. But I'm terrified. Has
> >> anybody tried this? Did it work?
> > 
> > Ha! The old "Space Madness" syndrome from "Ren & Stimpy" Pushing the
> > "Shiny Red Button" wiped out the universe and reality itself for
> > Stimpy. 
> > 
> > Some lesson to learn for some kid viewing it, huh? <grins> 
> > 
> > So, there ya go. To push or not to push, that is certainly the question!
> > My guts clinch up at the pondering of it. Ric
> >  
> 
> Well, I tried to install the latest eclipse from the development repo. 
> Yum failed to resolve all the dependencies, failed with some library 
> related to mplayer. It wanted to install new versions of gnome, kde, 
> open office, gcc, glibc, anaconda and lots of other stuff, totally 
> unrelated to eclipse.
> 
> I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A FSCKED UP DEPENDENCY MESS! Oh well, it's 
> development.
> 
> I would have ended up with half of an FC8 system. I might have been 
> interesting, but probably not too stable.
> 
> I really wanted to push the Shiny Red Button, but it wouldn't let me.

Ah, so the Shiny Red Button (the SRB) has an Anti-Peril feature? 

That is a good thing to know! 

Reality, whatever-in-the-heck-that-is, has been spared from certain
destruction. Ric


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