Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:23:04 +0200, you wrote: > >> If X.Org 7.1 is made available as an official upgrade to Fedora 5 when > >> the Fedora Project/Red Hat are aware that it will break systems that > >> are in use across companies and institutions then Fedora will lose > >> credibility and trust with the administrators of those systems, which > >> will damage the reputation of Fedora/Red Hat, as well as convince > >> those organizations to look into alternatives where stability within a > >> release is valued as it used to be with Red Hat. > >by this argument Fedora wouldn't be able to release updated kernels > >including those with urgent security fixes. > > But we are not talking about a security fix. > > Obviously a security fix would take priority, and I would hope that > both it and bug fixes could be done without breaking peoples systems. > > But the discussed release of X.Org 7.1 is a feature enhancement, and > one being considered by the maintainer with the deliberate goal of > breaking existing systems running F5. That is not fair to the people > running F5. It won't break systems running what Fedora ships. If you install third-party software and that breaks, it isn't Fedora's fault. Sure, doing it on purpose "just because" is not exactly nice, but that is another discussion. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
