On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 21:22 +0000, Jim 
> But that should be an indication of why testing is necessary: a failed 
> installation and a message of why it failed is infinitely better than a 
> successful installation that breaks browsers.  

And better than both would be a warning of some kind that informs of the
situation, but still allows the user to override the developer's
decision to prevent the installation of software he wants.

> Yesterday's Konqueror bug 
> could be tomorrow's Firefox bug, and you might break Firefox for all 
> users.  If you had all package maintainers with that maverick mentality, 
> you'd end up with a generally unstable OS.

Implausible, since macromedia's main testing environment would obviously
be firefox.

Again, put the user in control of the situation, not the packager.

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