kernels in the packaging universe

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Dec 20 17:58:43 UTC 2006


On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:51:35AM -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
 > On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 12:47 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
 > > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 11:40, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
 > > > If it is experimental,
 > > > let's call it just that.
 > > 
 > > Some of these things are not 'experimental' as in "If it works, it may be 
 > > included".  Some of these things will never be included, so to call them 
 > > experimental is not right.
 > > 
 > > How about dontuse.  Pretty clear right?
 > 
 > Personally, I'm voting for "don't bother".
 > 
 > This is a bad idea. We're encouraging fragmentation, and discouraging
 > the proper upstream path. If specific open source groups want to do
 > pre-upstream testing of kernel packages, let them make their own
 > unofficial repos. We'll link to them in our wiki.

Hallelujah. Preach on brother spot.

Until your post, I felt like I was in one of those movies where I wake up
and I'm the only person left alive. Except in this movie, I was the only
one who hadn't lost his mind.

		Dave

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