On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 21:02 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 14:32 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Email breaking is rather unlikely. I don't think there's many people
> left who keep all their actual email in a single client and cross their
> fingers that it won't break.
Wrong. I use evolution, a lot. I recently had to setup pine as a backup
b/c evo was completely broken for a good portion of the run up to f10.
So, you worked around the issue successfully. There you go. :)
But, why was Evo so broken? This seems odd. As I mentioned, my previous
distro packages pre-releases of GNOME and Evolution, and I run
Evolution. I certainly don't think Evolution was broken for a
significant period around August-October last year. I feel sure I
would've remembered.
Perhaps this is a case where, if there were more people running Rawhide
- like, fr'instance, whoever packages Evolution - it would've got fixed
faster...
I'm confused.
In your first message you were saying that rawhide is worse than all
other distro's development branches. Now you're saying rawhide isn't
that bad at all?
Fair point. I should make that clearer.
Broadly I think Rawhide has a much worse reputation than it necessarily
deserves, but I also think it probably is *somewhat* more commonly
broken than other distros. The objection that this is because Fedora is
more bleeding-edge is probably partially valid, but I don't think it's
the whole story.
I suspect Rawhide is not as bad as many people think it is, and I
further suspect it could be even better if more people ran it. Is that
clearer? :)
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