ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:53:11 -0800
John Wendel <john.wendel at metnet.navy.mil> wrote:

> And I have a broken Ubuntu 6.10 box that was caused by updating from a 
>   non-ubuntu repository. They all suck! It must be a hard problem.

I have often considered trying gentoo to see if building my own damn
libs and programs from source would operate better, but I have the feeling
that would just push the problem out to more esoteric kinds of
dependency issues like new compilers refusing to build old source.