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[wwp]

Hello Brian,


On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:17:49 +0100 Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 19:55:53 +0200
> "Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)" <rol at witbe.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:23:15 +0200
> > Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 13:43:45 +0200, Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン) wrote:
> > >     
> > > > NetworkManager detection has been changed, and it seems that looking for
> > > > libnm using pkg-config is not working for Fedora21 x86-64... The package
> > > > libnm is not present (though I have all the development packages).      
> > > 
> > > Fedora 21 has reached end of life in Dec 2015.
> > > Why would you still use it without any [security] updates?    
> > 
> > That's another story... Never ran a "dnf system-upgrade", I used to replace
> > the system disk, re-install an OS, and then re-compile a few apps I'm not
> > getting from the repo.
> > 
> > But my current machine has an internal M2 that is so hard to access I
> > haven't tried yet to do it, and I'm still reluctant to "dnf system-upgrade".  
> 
> Fedora releases are good for about 13 months, you really do need to
> think about whether you want to run a bleeding edge distro without
> keeping up with the release cycle.
> 
> I'm on F28, and yes it's sometimes been a hell of a ride...

Exactly why I gave up few years ago (after 15+ years of bleeding ..
edge distros) and moved to CentOS 6 then 7. And believe me, this is a
relief. Of course I still compile few stuff from the sources when I
need specific or really up-to-date software.


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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