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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: off-topic (wandering away from GNAT and GCC 3.02)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 13:00:09 +0100
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Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@spamcop.net> writes:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> It is certainly a bad idea to use RPMs at this stage.  If these RPMs
>> were built on a bad day, you can get into arbitrary problems.
>
> Like the advice to never buy a car assembled on Monday morning
> or Friday afternoon?

No, the problem with the GCC CVS is less esoteric, I think.  It's
software in (sometiems heavy) development.  Rather static RPM
snapshots are a bit like lottery.  (I don't know how much pre-release
testing is done on these RPMs, though.)