On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
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> Hmm, So when this was broken a lot of bugs were triggered?
>
> Sure seems like if a lot of bugs are being triggered then it is NOT a
> niche usecase.
>
> You can't have it both ways.
Very few people do it. When they do, lots of things break. It's kind of
like trying to run Fedora under the NetBSD Linux emulation. Nobody does
it, but if they did they'd find that a surprising quantity of code
wouldn't work.
you keep asserting this claim - and yet all the evidence in terms of
concerned users comes to the contrary.
Can you document or backup your assertion?
Every Fedora update requires significant retooling. The fact that
these
bugs exist indicates that there would be advantages to not supporting
this, providing that in return we can satisfy all the existing user
requirements. "/usr is a separate partition" is *not* a meaningful user
requirement, any more than "Fedora release names must start with a
consonant". If we can provide better and more generalisable solutions
for their requirements then that's a win for everyone.
Again - I'm going to ask you to stop making that assertion. You're
stating it as an established fact when it is CLEARLY the point in
contention.
-sv