On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
Yes, to whatever extent upstream refuses to respect their own interfaces as contracts with other programmers they deserve outrage as well. But, you don't have to ship that stuff. Maybe if no one did, they'd decide it was worth stabilizing interfaces to a point where others could cooperate.
Or more likely, everybody /but/ Fedora would ship it and then Fedora would be laughed at for being too old and slow to adopt new upstream releases.