floppy support (was: [HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide)

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Aug 30 19:24:23 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:13:05PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Simo Sorce wrote:
> > It seem much more intelligent to add a package owners of floppies can
> > install, so that 99.9% of the others do not have to wait forever for no
> > reason.
> 
> This goes against the principle that Fedora should Just Work on any hardware 
> it encounters if at all possible.

There's plenty of hardware that Fedora could work on but doesn't because 
the maintainers aren't willing to make the tradeoffs.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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