Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 04:21:17AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> Did Linux development move as quickly as it does now?
> Did users experience more problems or failures when running those dist-upgrades?
RedHat also did not support upgrades back when they did not wait four
years to do finish a new release. They do not support them, because they
*choose* not to support them, instead telling people to reinstall.
Yes, that makes it easier for them to wait four years between releases.
But I think you have cause and effect swapped around.
[...]
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
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