What Fedora makes sucking for me - or why I am NOT Fedora

[Les Mikesell]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> But I wouldn't envision marking an update as 'bad' although that's an
>> interesting concept itself.  I was thinking that there would be a
>> specified time when all normal updates enter the repository, followed
>> by a time when only critical bug and security fix updates could be
>> added, so towards the end of that interval, packages that hadn't been
>> replaced with 'better' updates would automatically be assumed 'good'
>> and it would be fairly safe to update machines where you want less
>> risk.  Then a new cycle of 'new feature' updates could start.
> 
> And presumably you (and everybody else) would wait out the "until known
> good" period; and as nobody tried it before, get to keep the pieces of the
> resulting breakage...

I'd expect everyone with more than one machine to choose different 
settings per machine, depending on how well it was currently working and 
how important its operation is.   But if, as you are suggesting, 
everyone did choose the more conservative alternative, would you agree 
that the way fedora updates is not what people want?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com