On ���, 2001-12-02 at 13:31, Anton Graham wrote: > The cooker "snobbery" that has developed on this list in the past 12 > months (and more dramatically in the last six) is rather disheartening. > Yes, cooker is an unstable (sometimes unusable) distribution. Yes, it > is intended primarily for use by those who Know What They Are Doing > (tm). But this is really going too far in discouraging > upgrades/testing. >
This problem was discussed on cooker extensively about a month ago, including suggested fix for those who do not want to upgrade the whole distro. It looks like you never tried to search mailing list archives which does not give you much credits as well. > If there are problems upgrading to the latest superxyz-9.5.3-1mdk > package and that problem can be attributed to a change in libraries, > then great. But if the package installed cleanly (i.e. no --force or > --nodeps) and something the package required isn't there, then there is > a dependency issue. > > When would you rather hit these problems? Now, in the middle of a > development cycle, or a few months down the road when Joe User is trying > to "upgrade" his 8.[01] box to 8.2 and suddenly has a broken superxyz. > You won't have this problem in any released version. The problem is that part of libraries are built against old libpng while part of libraries are built against new libpng. Old distro (8.1 or below) are using old version; new distro will use new version. > I have been a Mandrake user since 6.0 and followed this list since 6.1. > Yes, using cooker packages can be dangerous, and may require upgrading > many packages on the system. But, the fact that somebody's machine had > [6-8].[0-2] as the last install doesn't mean that he isn't presenting a > valid problem. In general - yes. In this particular case - no. > > In short, please stop flaming people for not riding the edge 24x7. If > they satisfied all depends and it broke, then there may be a genuine > problem. > Please, spend some time to search archives before starting to flame people here. The problem was resolved long time ago. -andrej
