On 01/15/2014 06:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I'd give a lot of credit for the popularity of Ubuntu to their more sane handling of 3rd party packages. Even the ones they don't host directly are generally available from a repository that is easily enabled (without hunting for it, or guessing which ones will break your system), and generally coordinated to avoid conflicts.
if someone can :
- define what 'breaks your system is' - write code that can test for 'breaks' - is happy to maintain that set of code
we can plumb that into the CI / nightly / pre-release testing to make sure that we can atleast notify the right people in time; ideally building upto proper coordination.
if you cant automate this, then its an education process. Feel free to start write docs and policies, then educating people around it - Fedora's knowldge base is a good place to start from
- KB