ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Temlakos]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> Just saw this on LWN (haven't even finished reading it), sorry if it
> has already been posted:
>
> 	http://lwn.net/Articles/223038/
>
> Marco
>
>   
I read it, and most of the comments on it.

Mr. Raymond could have solved his problems by using a different package 
manager (i.e., smart) and being pro-active about using it. The best 
thing that extras ever did was to build its own version of smart.

As an example of being pro-active with smart (rather than merely 
accepting whatever changes it recommends without further review): I've 
known for weeks now that the priorities system seems to be broken /in 
re/ libgcrypt, libtheora, and some jpackage libraries. For some reason, 
smart wants to upgrade some packages from ATrpms, and downgrade some 
other packages on jpackage, this although I already have versions 
originally installed from core, released-updates, and extras. I don't 
know what's going on (are these packages now gone from released-updates 
or extras?), but until I do, I always unmark those changes before I 
commit. Why couldn't Mr. Raymond do the same thing? What is he looking for?

And about those proprietary codecs: doesn't he realize that not all of 
us want to build multimedia machines? Some of us want to build database 
servers or Web servers, and you don't need proprietary /anything/ for 
that sort of work!

Does anyone here think that any of Mr. Raymond's suggestions have any 
merit? Or shall we write this off to sour grapes?

Temlakos