On Thu, December 11, 2008 9:49 am, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:38 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> You have to decide: do you want updates or do you not want them? If you >> don't want to wait for the next CentOS release, then obviously you need >> the >> update quickly, so you are in Fedora's target base. But then you can't >> complain that you get updates too quickly! You can't have both ways. >> (You're one of those users with contradictory requirements I mentioned >> elsewhere in this thread.) > > Updates != upgrades. > > I think frequent updates to given package set to fix bugs is great. > Frequent upgrades to a package set for new upstream features, behavior, > bugs, incompatibilities is not so great. > > With the 6 month cycle of Fedora, and our willingness to break things > like crazy in the rawhide world, we're still a very very fast distro and > unique in the distro space for early adoption of software. This all > comes /without/ even considering what we do for updates to our releases. > Even if our releases only got bugfixes, we're still uniquely agile to > new software and technologies and very fast to new releases using those > things. I think this eloquently states exactly what some people are trying to say. Especially the first sentence of the last paragraph I quoted. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
