Core + Exrtas 2

[Rahul Sundaram]

Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 10:32:56AM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> Perhaps what you are looking for is in rawhide. (That's what I run on my
>> desktop.)
> 
> That may be. I've never actually tried to run rawhide on a permanent basis
> because I don't have the time necessary to report bugs for any extended
> period.
> 
>>> Please don't do this. It will just turn Fedora into yet another one of
>>> many "backport security fixes only and make our users die of boredom"
>>> distributions.
>> There's a six month release cycle! Do you really die of boredom that
>> quickly?
> 
> In the case of waiting for new drivers that are needed for Fedora to work
> correctly on my box, I probably would, indeed, die of boredom waiting for
> the next release.

You are bored because you dont get the latest updates but you dont have 
time to participate in testing of rawhide or updates-testing. Perhaps 
when you are bored you can help out and contribute.

> 
>> There's something to be said for a _little_ boring.
> 
> - Demanding that packages pass through updates-testing before going to
>   updates is a little boring.

A blanket demand might be cumbersome but it generally is a good idea to 
shoot for better robustness. Limited exceptions can be granted for high 
priority security fixes and other very trivial changes.

> - Asking for ABI compatibility is a little boring.

I dont think we can meet ABI compatibility requirements on all updates.

> "Security fixes only" is far too restrictif to have that qualification.

Agreed.

Rahul