Fedora Board Recap 2007-NOV-13

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at 0xdeadbeef.com
Wed Nov 21 17:11:11 UTC 2007


On Nov 21, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> Keeping old systems around doesn't sound very efficient -one goal  
> that I guess is attempted to be achieved by the "keeping-only-so- 
> many-copies of the sources re-generating the SRPM on demand" idea.

If it's cheaper than converting the data and it's not in active use,  
then it's fine.  Also if the new system has to figure out how to use  
the old system's data it can often add unattractive constraints.   
Anyway, it's just an option.  Just putting it out there.

--Chris




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