Re: Missing packages
John Morris <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.taroon |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Michael Redinger wrote: > from Bugzilla: > > "Taroon isn't intended to be self-hosting; the -devel packages are removed > to limit ABI support liability (keep customers/ISVs from using libraries > that we don't want to live with forever)." Translation from marketing to english: "Don't use this on a developers workstation." Of course since developers are one of the few people it would otherwise make sense to deploy WS for..... Sounds like somebody better put down the crackpipe before the last former RedHat customer/ISV gets the kinks out of another distro. Seriously, while someone COULD build up all of the missing -devel packages, wouldn't anyone who was into that sort of self abuse already be running Gentoo? Selling a product that is less useful than the free version doesn't sound like the best business plan, but then I'm just a hick in the backwoods of Louisiana and probably don't understand the corporate mindset RedHat is selling to. -- John M. http://www.beau.org/~jmorris This post is 100% M$ Free! Geekcode 3.1:GCS C+++ UL++++$ P++ L+++ W++ w--- Y++ b++ 5+++ R tv- e* r -- Taroon-beta-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list