Packages with "fc6" name in Fedora 7

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Apr 11 17:27:36 UTC 2007


Axel Thimm wrote:
> consider the amount of money spent on developer time when a one-liner
> security fix applied to an old never-rebuilt package makes it boom at
> run-time.

The developer time is going to be spent at some point because it went 
boom at some point.  Potentially it's less time if it went boom three 
times and the developer only has to fix it once if he waits.  You're not 
saving money here, you're just shifting when it's spent.




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