some closure on the xorg updates issue

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 11 14:52:49 UTC 2006


Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> 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...
> 

I meant the latter.


Rahul




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