Debian flamewar (was: OpenOffice doc...)

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 15, 2005, at 00:42, Benjamin Scott wrote:

>   No, it takes a **LOT** longer.  If the number of components in a
> Configuration Management scenario is N, then the number of potential
> interactions is (N^2)-N.  Think about that for a minute.

You forgot to iterate over the number of functions exposed by each 
component (N). :(

Probably somebody somewhere with enough resources could come up with a 
system to profile each package and build dependency graphs and built 
good validation scripts for each package and setup a cluster of test 
machines and scripts to automate testing of each of the Nf^2 possible 
configurations and create pass/fail lists and auto-feedback about 
breakage.... but it ain't ever gonna happen.

IT is rapidly converging on "figuring out why stuff breaks when 
upgrades happen".

-Bill
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