On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:06:12PM +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:58:53PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > >> 2010/9/20 MichaÅ Piotrowski <mkkp4x4@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > 2010/9/21 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> >> As the concept of using third party repositories (both as packagers and as > >> >> users) grows, this interdependence will grow. > >> > > >> > Ok, so maybe it's time to setup Fedora "backports" repo for these that > >> > wants new and shiny Firefox 4, PostgreSQL 9 or whatever with big > >> > number. > >> > >> > >> What exactly is the fear here with these updates? Are there many > >> desktop users who do NOT want the latest released Firefox? Are there > >> many people using Fedora as their OS for their database server? > > > > Maybe we should turn this around and ask why more people don't > > use Rawhide. > > Well "use rawhide" for anything else than testing and/or developing > the new release just do not fly. If you read the second part of what I said, you'll see that I proposed a way to address some of these issues. > Some of the reasons I can think of: > > 1) To high rate of changes / breakage > 2) No signed packages > 3) Slower kernel > 4) To much of "manual fixing" required > 5) To many broken deps, which might prevent applying updates and security fixes > 6) Some others that I can't think of right now might be a consequence > of the above or something else Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
