On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 05:10:41PM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > On 03/05/2010 03:25 PM, Thomas Janssen wrote: > > > > Well, no. It wouldn't be a very hot leading distro. It would be > > nothing more than any other distro with the same release-cycle. > > Assuming that other distros were packaging all of the exact same > releases on the exact same release cycle, yes, obviously. However, I > don't believe that a distro which always immediately pushed every new > upstream release of everything would be very useful: it'd basically be > like trying to use rawhide all the time. > Agreed, current rawhide is not consumable or very appealing as a platform to run. > I suspect that the Fedora policy, as stated, makes the most sense for > most people who use Fedora. There is no rule against pushing new > package releases to updates, but they're not pushed unless there's a > good reason. > Agreed here as well. Proper emphasis on "reason" -- there should be a reason other than upstream has a new release but there's a lot of leeway for the maintainer to decide if the reason::risk ratio is okay. > Fedora is a really good full-featured Linux distro with > an agrressive release cycle, even without a continuous > drinking-from-a-firehose updates policy. > This is where I'm a bit confused.... AFAICS, no one has pushed for a drink-from-the-firehose policy. The fact that rawhide is basically drinking from the firehose is why people care about there being a policy for F-current that is not overly restrictive... (ie, they want something between, only security and critical bugfixes, no enhancements and rawhide) > > So i (and others who think like me), have no reason to use Fedora > > over one of the other mainstream Distros if Fedora is the same. And >h > we will not get users like me if we dont offer that. Sure, there > > might be people who dont give a darn about people like me. > > Well, that's a rather specialized taste. > And since I was lost at the previous step, I wonder here what you think Thomas wants that's rather specialized. If you think it's "drink from the firehose" and that == rawhide, I agree that that's specialized. If it's semi-rolling updates, then I think that's not so specialized at all. -Toshio
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