Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0?

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Sun, 1 Oct 2000 21:33:40 +0200

On Sun, Oct 01, 2000 at 09:18:36PM +0200, Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
> C++ ABI breaking: SuSE managed to break the VShop application in an
> entierly insane way between releases 6.1 and 6.2 - they stiupid did
> recompile the libstdc++ with a new compiler and didn't even
> bother to increment the binary version of this library!!!!
> At RedHat at least they know what they are changing...

Obviously redhat did and does a lot of similar braindamage, which could be
called "bugs" (no version of perl on redhat cd's really worked correctly
for example).

Again, the choice redhat did can not be construed as being some mistake by
some guy or a group of guys. It was a deliberate decision.

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