[svlug] Mandrake 8 beta thoughts

[Rick Moen]

begin  Dagmar d'Surreal quotation:

> It works fine, so long as you continually keep your patches updated
> and don't mind re-applying them every time you recompile.

OK.  (Or _someone_ patching and recompiling for me.)  That answers my
question, thanks.  

> At the time that RH grabbed the gcc source from CVS to get around the
> incompatibility, the patches which are now resulting in a 2.95.3
> version didn't exist, meaning they had to either leave out
> glibc-2.2.x, or make a try at using the experimental compiler if they
> wanted everything to work.  Some of us merely prefer to wait for the
> people responsible for the changes to sort out the errors, rather than
> take a risk to meet a marketing deadline.  Simply put, they made a
> very bad judgement call.

The point of my earlier post was that there were some fairly decent
reasons at the time, though one can argue with details of how it was
packaged and numbered -- and, of course, one can maintain (as you are,
here) that they should have just waited.  But others would counter that
we'll be seeing a usable 2.95.3 sooner than we would have otherwise.
It's a debatable matter, and I'm inclined to cut them some slack.  

Of course, that doesn't mean I choose to join the pioneering types
trying to _use_ that stuff -- which is a different question.
 
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