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[cerise at armory.com]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:39:20PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Well, since you mention that:  If you mean you're forcing them to suffer
> through routinely running upstream head code, then there are 50,000-odd
> systems whose users I pity.  

Actually, there's been no suffering involved on my watch.  I've nicely
sidestepped a number of issues.  udev, ATA CD recording, the 2.4.x 24-hour
release.

I take it as a matter of pride that my users had X.org a long time before
Deb's X team had cleared up their silly politicking.  They also had nptl
and 2.6 long before any of their competitors.
 
> Competent package maintainers do not blindly follow upstream -- for good
> reason.  You may eventually figure that out.  You might not.

Competent system administrators do not blindly follow package maintainers --
for good reason.  You may eventually figure that out.  You might not.

-Phil/CERisE