For every problem, how many times did package management work flawlessly? Fedora systems often enter states where manual intervention with the package system i

For every problem, how many times did package management work flawlessly? Fedora systems often enter states where manual intervention with the package system is necessary to fix and issue preventing updates, they're usually just much simpler. And upgrading from major release to major release very commonly results in orphans or zombies. At least until the most recent release, the official instructions for resolving live upgrade issues involved 2-3 reboots and manual management of the package database in single user mode. So, the user tried to somehow bypass the official distro package management. If you open up your microwave oven and electrocute yourself, is that because of a basic flaw of microwave ovens? No, it's the expected behavior of many fedora users and common among developers. Fedora has a zero tolerance policy on binary blobs and anything potentially ip encumbered. This is their arms length provider of such, and the official packagers will direct you there if you look to get your software included in the main repos but they have concerns about patent coverage. They rely on the use of that repo so much that they actually first shipped gnome 3 with the open source nvidia driver they shipped with blacklisted because of how bad it was, and instructed nvidia users to install the proprietary drivers to get a working system.