ARTICLE - ESR gives up on Fedora

[Nigel Stewart]

>> For somebody whose CS isn't as rusty as mine - I think one should be 
>> able to setup a dedicated process to watch a repo and build graphs of 
>> dependencies and preemptively find this kind of breakage.  Comments?
> 
> Yes, you probably could, but that's what the million monkeys on the 
> Internet are doing for you when they install stuff and it doesn't work. 
> In this case, people are cheaper than software.

Without disagreeing with your points about how open source is
"supposed to work", I think doing better repo quality control
would be a good direction for things to go.  There doesn't seem
much point in letting a repo get into a inconsistent state and
letting that flow downstream....

Nigel