> >People rely on us to
> >not only package things up, but to try and reasonably make sure those
> >packages work. Shipping a known busted package would violate that
> >expectation.
Oh...and that never happens. Let me see...packages I've complained about
being shipped broken. Just off the top of my head there's the INN package
that for months had an file list that claimed to contain the docs tree,
but the actual archive was missing all the docs. They wouldn't publish a
fix because they wanted to wait on some security fixes. There's the lpr
package in which printing for non-users was silently broken even though
there was already a printcap switch for disabling printing by non-users.
It's been months, and they've not released a fix even though I sent them
patches that maintained the security they claim to have added in breaking
lpd. One of these days I'll have to learn to make my own RPMs and
maintain a "Red Hat unbroken" subdistribution.
I'm sure there are more, but those are the two that jumped out
immediately. But Red Hat doesn't ship broken packages. They just
redefine "broken".
> IMHO, I think you are being too charitable to Dell. They should at least
> make it clear to your customer that what you are shipping is a dual
> processor box that runs only one processor. If the OS is not ready for SMP
> then don't ship the box with extra processors that aren't working unless
An interesting test would be to see if they will say anything if you order
a dual CPU box and tell them you just want Win98. Will they sell it to
you that way? Will they warn you that you're an idiot for ordering an SMP
system with a non-SMP OS?
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