>
> In fact, I think that Mandrake should not have released
> freq3 and 8.1 beta 1 so near, or they could at least have
> warned people before. I know someone who broke his system
> with freq3 and spent hours to make it work again, and
> he's very angry too because he would have prefered to
> wait for 8.1 beta.
>
I agree and disagree. They should not release Freq3 because the system
was in awful shape at this moment. Actually, they probably should wait
with beta1 until RPM and rpmdrake problems are resolved (RPM in any
case). OTOH anybody testing snapshots should be prepared to deal with
broken system. You get what you've asked for :-)
-andrej
