On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 12:28:59 +0000
Mat Booth <fedora(a)matbooth.co.uk> wrote:
You must do a lot more Fedora user support than I do; is it really a
frequent occurrence that users unwittingly enable Rawhide and screw up
their systems?
Not a criticism, I'm just surprised it happens at all.
Yeah, I would say we get about 1 person a week or so in #fedora that
decided they wanted as many choices as possible, so they enabled every
repo file they had installed. I guess it's sometimes more, sometimes
less.
Maybe the problem could be solved just by labelling it clearer,
rawhide-development or something.
Currently it says:
# These packages are untested and still under development. This
# repository is used for development of new releases.
#
# This repository can see significant daily turnover and major
# functionality changes which cause unexpected problems with other
# development packages. Please use these packages if you want to work
# with the Fedora developers by testing these new development packages.
#
# fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com is available as a discussion forum for
# testing and troubleshooting for development packages in conjunction
# with new test releases.
#
# More information is available at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
#
# Reproducible and reportable issues should be filed at
#
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/.
However, the people who enable all repos (including source and
debuginfo) aren't the ones who would stop doing that after reading most
anything I don't think. They want everything enabled so they can have
the most choice/newest stuff, and then are very sad when they find out
they have to re-install to go back to the stable release.
kevin