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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:15:20 -0700
Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> My $.02.  Collins' painless method is what I use:
 
I'll bite ;) (good advice in general though)

> <rant> I'll never understand why they do this. 
> Lots of people have broken their systems this way. </rant>


Mainly to keep you folks on edge and make sure everyone actually reads
what the diff with etc-update is and does.    that and the fact that we
believe that our users are capable of tending their own systems.

*G*   (lets let it die here)




 
> My experience has been that all too frequently something slips by the
> quality control process (not too surprising with all the permutations
> and combinations).  Just check the archives for the fallout from the
> latest gcc, if you want a reason for going slow!  I'm still sitting on
> a  gcc and glibc update myself.

Yeah, unfortunately things do crop up that noone ever noticed or got
bitten by during the few weeks (or gcc , months. ) that its been in ~. 

Some things that will generally bite is if you linger too far behind, as
such testing is mostly undoable from our behalf.  Danger zone ahead.


//Spider

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