Am 14.01.2012 19:12, schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Kevin Fenzi wrote: >> Keeping packages around with no maintainers or people handling their >> bugs is poor for everyone. > > Why? If I, as a user, really need a certain piece of software, I'd rather > have an unmaintained package than none at all! be careful with such assumptions without mind what this means for the integrity of your setup most time you will not know that it is unmaintained if "yum install" does the job, you expect it will get security fixes which will not happen in this case so if it is NOT maintained and has security bugs you will be the first start whining why it was not from the moment machine is compromised
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