Reading a recent post in fedora-test-list on the lack of testers for FC3t1 reminded me of a wishlist I had had ever since I tried using Fink <fink.sf.net> on Mac OS X. What we are missing at the moment in Fedora is an easier way to rebuild packages from source. Not advocating an optimize-like-hell approach like Gentoo's, but more the approach of Fink or the *BSDs; i.e. being able to issue a command like 'yum build foo' which will check all the build requirements of package foo, and for those not found, download the source packages, rebuild them, and install them automagically behind the scenes.* (* I believe Debian does that also, but I can't remember) With Fedora Core releases happening every six months, people with a lot of non-Core packages installed would appreciate being able to quickly rebuild their packages to check for errors, IMHO. Mach might be able to do this, but unfortunately I'm on a metered connection right now and could not try it until next month. Which sadly rules me out of the test periods, so apologies if I introduce suggestions that have already been implemented or seem naive. Another thing is to provide alternate kernel images. Not just various recompiles of the same kernel versions as FC currently does, but older kernels as well for compatibility reasons. It would be especially nice if this could be integrated into Anaconda but really, people who need older kernels could dig up the RPM from the installation media unless the standard kernel is unbootable. In my case, for example, the last kernel to support my external Firewire/USB drive is kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 from FC2t2 (IIRC). Just my 2 cents, - Michel
