On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Dag Wieers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is easy to do. Let's not do any work on the repository ! It also helps
> with the 'reducing effort' and 'increase free time' conditions :)

I don't think MHR means it's up to you or any packager to make things
backward-compatible, but rather up to the developers of e.g. wxGTK.

Unfortunately OSS developers have little incentive to do this, because
that's extra effort that is much less interesting than working on
whatever is the bleeding edge.

It's not all that difficult, as user even of yum, to simply avoid
updates that break things.  Yes, you may have to discover that
something is broken and then back off to an earlier package -- I did
exactly that with mplayer for most of 2007 -- but it's far from
impossible.
_______________________________________________
users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users

Reply via email to