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 -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc