On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 09:54 -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
It would be nice to have everyone who works on Rawhide, work *from* Rawhide. I suspect this would make people generally less keen to break stuff. =)
That's precisely why it's not practical to use Rawhide as a day-to-day platform. I know others will disagree and that's fine, but I long since switched back to a stable Fedora 9/10 setup. It's tough enough ever getting a rawhide that will install, let alone not break randomly.
Chicken and egg situation. Someone has to take the leap. Eventually, once enough developers are on Rawhide, there'll be a culture where people generally don't break things too egregiously, and are immediately complained-at if they do, workarounds become known, fixes are made quickly. But anyhoo, I have more developed thoughts along these lines coming in future.
KVM is great at letting one poke safely at stuff.
Sure, but nothing beats hardware. =)