On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Florent Le Coz wrote: >> On 28/07/2010 14:52, Mike McGrath wrote: >> > In my opinion including software that even upstream says is not ready is >> > for a distribution that's "lost their way". We can still be a leading >> > distribution and not include pre-release software. Especially pre-release >> > software that's not only in our critical path, but also something that >> > almost all of us use every day. >> I agree, but doesn't that mean that Firefox 4.0 won't be available in >> F14 at all and will only be in F15? >> I think it would be a huge drawback for Fedora 14. > > It would be huge if there people who can't live without it didn't have > any other way of getting it than having it pre-packaged. I think > Firefox 4 looks to be fantastic, but the truth is that people only > have to wait a few months for a release with it pre-packaged, if > they're not able to add it on their own. Well if the mozilla maintainers would get it into rawhide shortly after the F-14 branch it would mean that people could get it from the F-15 repos. For years I've used or recompiled srpm rawhide packages that I've wanted/needed in a stable release. This has included firefox and even evolution. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
