ESR: Goodbye Fedora- big picture

[John P. Fisher]

Sam Varshavchik  and a lot of other people wrote some thoughtful 
replies, but:

1) trust me, the Debian system is just as broken. I spend a lot of time 
sorting out both distros.
1a) regarding yum, what good is a distro without an upgrade system?

2) a few other rhetorical comments-
Isn't this a result of the torrent of new apps that has arrived since 
RH7-8 and Debian Woody days?
Isn't this fundamentally the same shared library disaster that they call 
dll-hell on Windows? Boy howdy that Windows repository was a great 
solution...
At bottom isn't this a rate-of-change issue? The Mac world solves this 
by welding the hood shut. As soon as you start adding uncommon software 
there, OSX has problems too.
I'll donate to an OS solution to the multimedia problem.

3) I guess if I could wave a wand, I'd have a set of common fundamental 
libraries that get shared and maintain compatibility between distro 
releases, and everything else would be handled by the applications 
themselves. Maybe this is plain dumb, but it sure would be easier for me...

John Fisher