why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Warren Togami]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:19, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> Actually I'd like to see this, too, but Fedora people seem to be so
>> unwilling to support something like that so I tried the "better ask for
>> something that's not that hard to realize and lies between the current
>> solution and the best/ideal solution; maybe then the chances to get what
>> we ask for are higher and it make one big part of the problem go away,
>> even if parts of the problem remain"-approach
> 
> Well, we could do this, but it would involve an explosion of epochs :/  Our 
> ability to roll back package versions that were 'mistakes' is very very 
> useful.  The only way to keep this is to use epochs to "force" a lower 
> version package to win.  Once epoch, always epoch.

Epoch is a necessary evil, when the alternative is people lose the 
ability to automatically upgrade and be useful to your testing efforts.

It has been a bigger mistake for us to rollback these "mistakes" in this 
way.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com