Core + Exrtas 2

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 11:35 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:13 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> >> No, he's asking about introducing new packages to a released product. 
> >> Say
> >> Fedora 7 goes out the door with a given package set.  Three weeks later a
> >> great new package gets added to the Fedora universe, what kind of policy
> >> would there be in making this package available to the Fedora 7 users?
> 
> > IMO, basically like FE has been doing it, so far, except that breaking
> > APIs, ABIs and packages deps etc. must not happen.
> 
> That language may be a bit too strong, as I can think of cases where an
> essential update may end up breaking ABI, though it's not unreasonable to
> to make policy such that it *should* (not must) be avoided.
Well, this "must" is the core point about all this - Fedora should be a
stable distro.

Where would be the difference to rawhide, otherwise?

Ralf