On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Bruno Wolff III <br...@wolff.to> wrote: > Hardware specific regressions aren't that rare. I have run into them > several times. I have had problems with disk controllers, USB flash > drives and video cards. Sometimes there are work arounds (e.g. using > nomodeset or disabling AGP), other times I just stayed on old kernels for a > while.
And it should be pointed out, the kernel is handled as a very special case in our packaging. We understand and expect people to have multiple parallel installed kernel packages on system. So if and when you do hit a hardware regression you usually have the ability to fallback to an older kernel that was working for you because it was not removed from the system when the new kernel was installed. The point being, we don't make it easy to do that for other packaged components. A fear a full rolling release would involve some deep re-engineering of everything we package to make it possible to parallel install multiple versions of everything. -jef -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
