On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/29/2010 11:45 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 09:36 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: >>> On 09/29/2010 09:02 AM, Colin Walters wrote: >>>> So the alternative here is: >>>> - Add a warning/note to F14 gnome-shell that it's old and to: >>>> - Make it easier and better to run F15/rawhide. Which involves >>>> fixing the problems there, and scripting the rpm/yum foo better to >>>> make the switch, and being a lot more aggressive about preventing >>>> regressions. >>> >>> What about hosting a repos.fp.o for gnome-shell in F14? >> >> The problem here is that that repository would have to have all the >> updates that Colin is saying that we don't want to do now: >> >> - Rebuilds of all the gnome libraries >> - New pygobject >> - Parallel-installed clutter-14 >> - Etc. >> >> So it's a repo that would modify systems fairly drastically and would >> take a lot of work to maintain. Not infeasible but we do need to >> concentrate a lot on F15 in this cycle. >> >> - Owen >> >> > > I envisioned just copies of the f15 change sets being built against f14 > and published into an f14 repo. This could be done by somebody not > necessarily being distracted with upstream and f15 tasks. Problem with that is that it changes a lot of core libraries and would likely break the standard desktops for those users that use the 3rd party repos. Peter -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
