gnome-vfs not in Rawhide?

[Mike Hearn]

On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:09:53 -0400, John Thacker wrote:
> Similarly, we expected people to have to do 
> export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5, etc., because their old apps (like
> acroread4) wouldn't work otherwise.  That seems pretty hard for a newbie
> to figure out; I've had to tell people about it.  They don't like
> their apps suddenly breaking on upgrade.

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL was an absolute usability disaster, it's not something
anyone should be pointing to as justification. Threading really was
not a bottleneck on most peoples systems, and it would have made much more
sense for NPTL to be opt-in, instead of opt-out.

The end result of stuff like this is that all the good work projects like
GNOME have done gets thrown away, because the moment Joe User wants to run
a cool game or their mission critical app, they have to dick
about with the command line setting obscure meaningless variables that you
Just Have To Know.

thanks -mike