firefox?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 27 Sep 2015 16:10:34 +0200
Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> In other words, some maintainer pushed a built with broken deps, 
> Fedora's automated dep checkers and rel-eng also missed these.

As far as I know they only have a planned automated dep checker
intended to be the be-all, end-all of dep checkers, analyzing
everything down to the last detail, running instantly, and all
those other goals that always prevent vaporware from becoming
real.

I always wished they'd just install a virtual machine with as many
non-conflicting packages as possible, and run updates through
a little extra stage, building the new repo, and running update
on the virtual machine. If it works, no problem, the updates
are consistent for 99.99% of all users who don't have some weird
corner case packages installed. It seems like this level of checking
would take at most a few days to implement, but since it
isn't flawless, it is totally unacceptable, leaving things
in the hopeless broken state they are in now while working
on the impossibly perfect checker is a far better alternative
than implementing something that would be easy and fix 99% of
all problems like this.