some closure on the xorg updates issue

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Rahul wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>> Max Spevack wrote:
>>> 4) The number of Fedora users who, due to the hardware that they 
>>> own, are forced to rely on proprietary video drivers is significant 
>>> enough for us to be concerned about breaking their systems.
>> Isn't this one of the beautiful things of RPM, which can have 
>> Conflicts set so user's systems will not be broken be an automatic 
>> (unattended?), or manual yum update? Do we not expect Fedora users to 
>> be savvy enough to get the dependency error, Google around a bit, and 
>> yum --exclude=xorg update?
>
> Thats a very poor user experience.
>
> Rahul
>
I'm sorry, but when translated, this either sounds offensive in means 
you find my opinion a very poor user experience, or it means user's that 
would encounter the above would experience it as poorly...

Kind regards,

-kanarip

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