On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:52 PM, Warren Young wyml@etr-usa.com wrote:
On Jan 6, 2015, at 6:49 PM, John R. Dennison jrd@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 06:37:42PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
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Quick question, if I may? What does this have to do with CentOS?
Some people are annoyed that CentOS keeps changing on them, and keep going to greater and greater lengths to try and argue that CentOS should not change.
No one has said it should not change. Just that it breaks all users existing work when it changes in non-backwards compatible ways.
I am explaining to them why this is not a productive view.
The non-productive part is that every user who has ever built anything of non-stable components has to deal with the problem on an individual basis. Is there any centralized approach to converting something that worked on CentOS6 to run on CentOS7? Does the program that is supposed to try to automatically upgrade versions have any tricks hidden away to fix things so they work after the upgrade, and could any of them be run separately?