Richard Hughes schrieb: > On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:48 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Shipping Zope in Fedora 5 and Fedora 6 and excluding it in Fedora 7 >> just looks so bad to out the outside and created problems for out >> users. I'd really would like to avoid that. > If a vendor kept patching a driver for kernel 2.4 but refused to port it > to kernel 2.6, would we ship a 2.4 kernel just for that one driver? > Technically possible but a really bad plan. Sure, we have to draw the line somewhere. But why do we have these, too: > $ yum list compat-* > Loading "installonlyn" plugin > Excluding Packages in global exclude list > Finished > Installed Packages > compat-db.i386 4.3.29-2.fc7 installed > compat-libstdc++-296.i386 2.96-138 installed > compat-libstdc++-33.i386 3.2.3-61 installed > compat-readline43.i386 4.3-3 installed > compat-wxGTK26.i386 2.6.3-2 installed > Available Packages > compat-erlang.i386 R10B-10.7.fc7 extras-developme > compat-flex.i386 2.5.4a-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gcc-34.i386 3.4.6-7 development > compat-gcc-34-c++.i386 3.4.6-7 development > compat-gcc-34-g77.i386 3.4.6-7 development > compat-gda-ldap.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gda-mysql.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gda-odbc.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gda-postgres.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gda-sqlite.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-gda-xbase.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-guichan05.i386 0.5.0-5.fc7 extras-developme > compat-guichan05-devel.i386 0.5.0-5.fc7 extras-developme > compat-guile-16.i386 1.6.7-6.fc7 extras-developme > compat-guile-16-devel.i386 1.6.7-6.fc7 extras-developme > compat-libf2c-34.i386 3.4.6-7 development > compat-libgcc-296.i386 2.96-138 development > compat-libgda.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-libgda-devel.i386 1.2.4-1.fc7 extras-developme > compat-libosip2.i386 2.2.2-12.fc7 extras-developme > compat-libosip2-devel.i386 2.2.2-12.fc7 extras-developme > compat-openldap.i386 2.3.34_2.2.29-0.fc7 development > compat-wxGTK.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-common.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-common-devel.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-devel.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-gl.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-stc.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK-xrc.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK2.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK2-devel.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK2-gl.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK2-stc.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK2-xrc.i386 2.4.2-21.fc6 extras-developme > compat-wxGTK26-devel.i386 2.6.3-2 extras-developme > compat-wxPythonGTK2.i386 2.4.2.4-15.fc7 extras-developme So why not a compat-python24 for a limited timeframe, too -- say one or two releases? CU thl -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
