Pull off AIGLX repoistory?

[Denis Leroy]

Chris Chabot wrote:
>>On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Rahul wrote:
>>The only way to reduce any breakages such as this is not release major 
>>updates at all.
> 
> 
> Isn't that what 'releases' are for, major updates & upgrades? It will be
> kind of hard for anyone making software to say "Works well on fedora core 5,
> if you exclude these packages, or haven't/have updated before/after
> xx-xx-xxxx"
> 
> To me a 'supported' (bad word to use I know :-)) release would mean that its
> API/ABI stable, but security fixes are made available, and if something
> works with 'FC-5', then it should work with FC-5 :-)
> 
> To me, as a user it would be a frustrating experience to suddenly find that
> after an 'update' suddenly things don't work as expected anymore .. Even
> though some people might have something of an resentment against binary
> applications or drivers, I don't see why we have to be 'against' them either
> and go out of our way to break them 'because we can', fedora is a platform
> for many things..

This goes beyond binary-only drivers. What if you were using FC-5 as a 
major development platform for your own Xorg-based application (or 
gnome, or kde), then an FC-5 update breaks your code in a major way...