What do we think of this?

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:32 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html
> 
> Michael Schwendt has made a spirited and passionate response (thanks, 
> Michael) to Caitlyn's comments.
> 
> Is there any substance to these comments?

Well, rawhide is frequently broken/out of sync. I don't think we expect
but so much there. 

I think Michael has a point about deps not being broken in any given
repo. However, due to the different mgmt/deployment practices/behavior
b/t extras and core I know there have been cases where one is out of
sync with the other for a little while and then it takes the mirrors X
amount of time to catch up - but in the mean time the user has a broken
dep dangling. 

A couple of things we can do/are doing to ameliorate this:

1. the repo merger will help make keeping up with whatever just moved
around easier
2. updates-testing for all repos will help
3. repoclosure running before updates are pushed - michael schwendt has
done some great work to make this happen in extras but it needs to be
happen distro-wide. I think once we have the merge done his code will be
valuable there.
4. the --skip-broken plugin for yum probably needs to be merged into
base yum. That would allow us a nice(r) way to fallback if there's a dep
problem in any repo.

that'd be my take.

-sv