On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 07:02:27PM -0500, Scott M. Dier wrote: > On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 17:35, steve wrote: > > Zibby, deep breaths, good air in, bad air out...repeat. Sit back, do > > this four thousand, two hundred and sixteen times. You will feel > > It's nice to have the bleeding edge packaged, but many package > developers are deciding to stay away from bleeding edge because of the > enabling of 'user who cant debug' to use their packages. Theres some > sort of feeling that 'oh, its packaged! it has to be stable, featurful, > and not break my system or im going to go kill them for doing such a > horrible thing to me and MY MACHINE' > > this is a true threat to package developers. Users have long been considered one of the top threats to developers. -- I used to like HP before computers, and once I even liked Compaq, but I liked DEC better than HP and Compaq put together.