Also Fedora sometimes lacks the latest packages of something for *many* releases. Take TeX for example. I've not upgraded my laptop, which I use mostly for typesetting from FC5 until F9 came out. Why? I've manually upgraded some LaTeX packages (and yes I reaaally had to delete the old ones, not just install the new ones privately). Anything in between FC6-FC8 would have been a downgrade for my laptop. It looks like the history is going to repeat itself with F10 and TeXLive 2008, but I'm digressing... On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> seth vidal wrote: >> > A friend forwarded me this blog: >> > http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/blog/linux/autodeath.1024px >> > and I wondered if it would be something to consider for fedora >> > releases. >> > This would NOT be as a default, but as a package you can install, if >> > you >> > wish, to drop the route on your box after whatever expiration date. We >> > can set the release date in a file in the package and key from there. >> > If the package was included in a fedora repo we could have it have a >> > death date of whenever the release started + 14months (some wiggle room >> > for release slips) for example. >> > Any thoughts? > >> I think it is much better to hookup preupgrade with PackageKit so you >> get notification on your desktop when there is a new release and a >> easy path to do so. Notifying and encouraging users to upgrade would >> solve the problem of people sticking to old unmaintained releases in a >> much nicer way. > > Also, some people I know stick to old versions for (closed source or > inhouse developed) software that is hard/impossible to port forward, or > just random inconsistencies between versions (automount troubles between > CentOS 5, CentOS 4, Fedora 8 and 9 here were a recent example; we are > working on open source related to the ALMA radioastronomy observatory, > there they are still running ancient Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions due > to software written in "C++" as understood by old GCC, newer GCCs just barf > at the code and rewriting/retesting that huge mess is a titanic job just > now really underway). > > On philosophical grounds, I'm against forcing people forward, even for > their own good... /encouraging/ them forward is a much better idea. > > [Most tyrannies tried to force people "for their own good", some did it > perhaps even in (mistaken?) good faith, a few were even right in this...] > -- > Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org > Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 > Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 > Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile 2340000 Fax: +56 32 2797513 > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
