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[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > 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