On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, James Antill james@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 23:55 +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
just ot mention a few problem with 5.3:
- openjava was added to the distro so all packages which requires
java-devel now try to build with openjava in stead of gcc's java and most of them fail.
- new updates like dbus-glib, ifd-gate, pccs etc have incompatible devel
packages eg. headers, but not all of the packages requires these new packages was rebuild/fixed so those packages no longer build.
- newer gcc, toolchain etc (which included in later updates) have
stronger check and standard compliance but with these tools old and buggy code no longer compile.
This is useless churn to rebuild all the packages to fix these kinds of build differences, why do you think RH's customers would want them to do that?
One man's uselessness is another man's requirement. Also, when making blanket statements about customers, realize that he too is customer, and he clearly has a different needs. He is not alone, either. RedHat being able to self host itself is very important to the class of customer that is customizing RedHat distributions. If it can't self host itself, the process of building all of RedHat being documented would be an acceptable alternative. As an aside, if they didn't use these new fangled compilers, which ones did they use? That is followed by if they didn't use the new compilers to build RedHat, then why should we as customers trust these compilers for our products?
Also, consider that many of us use open source so we can quickly and effectively support our customers. That benefit is derived solely from the access to the source code, and our ability to patch and rebuild programs from these sources. If the ability to rebuild from sources is not there or undocumented, then naturally, we start looking at other alternatives.
Cheers...james