On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2012 10:01 PM, Seth Vidal wrote: >> >> >> Jesse, >> To be fair - gnome/kde importing something into rawhide/branched >> that's not finished doesn't shut down everyone else's ability to test >> the distro.... >> >> >> I think it is disingenuous to talk about another distro using anaconda - >> b/c the only other one that does, directly, is rhel - and they're >> downstream of fedora, too. That doesn't mean things can be dictated - >> but it does mean that breaking/delaying fedora is not something that >> should be >> done lightly. >> >> I think holding anaconda to higher standards is not a ridiculous >> concept. For years the requirement for yum and rpm (even in rawhide) has >> been 'never commit something so broken it cannot be used to revert >> itself'. >> >> but I'm positive that this conversation is long past the point of >> productivity so... > > > I can't disagree with this message. I'll also point out that we didn't have > a lot of choices for F18. We could either leave the existing anaconda > package there (which was completely broken) or import the partially > functional newUI code base. We went with the option that would provide the > most functionality, which was the newUI code base. And there was a third option ... port over the old anaconda to the F18 changes. (so you'd have less changes). -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
