Re: NPTL support in 2.4 kernel series?

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 22-Jan-05, 05:31 (CST), Martin Kittel <debian@martin-kittel.de> wrote: 
> Andreas Metzler <ametzler <at> downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
> > No. They'll see the debconf question, select "abort installation", the
> > package will not be upgraded, the package will not be broken.
> > 
>
> They still had to download a useless package and do an interactive
> update. And if I am not mistaken, their running databases will have
> been stopped during the prerm-phase. So all in all, I would not
> consider this a pleasant experience.

I continued to be mystified as to why you think anybody who is both
interested in installing an advanced DBMS, and capable of operating
such, is not capable of reading a simple declaritive sentence in the
package description. The people who are likely to run MaxDB are exactly
those who are more likely to have built their own kernel, and forcing
them to jump through extra hoops is not going to win you fans.

Steve

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